Cortical enlightenment: are attentional gamma oscillations driven by ING or PING?
Paul Tiesinga1, Terrence J Sejnowski
1Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Neuron
|September 26, 2009
Abstract
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The response of a neuron to sensory stimuli can only give correlational support for functional hypotheses. To experimentally test causal function, the neural activity needs to be manipulated in a cell-type-specific as well as spatially and temporally precise way. We review recent optogenetic experiments on parvalbumin-positive cortical interneurons that link modeling studies of synchronization to experimental studies on attentional modulation of gamma oscillations in primates.
