Time in Cortical Circuits.
Gerald T FinnertyMichael N ShadlenMehrdad JazayeriAnna C NobreDean V BuonomanoPublished in: The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience (2016)
Time is central to cognition. However, the neural basis for time-dependent cognition remains poorly understood. We explore how the temporal features of neural activity in cortical circuits and their capacity for plasticity can contribute to time-dependent cognition over short time scales. We propose that understanding the neural basis for how the brain tells time and operates in time will be necessary to develop general models of cognition.