The role of neural synchrony in visual processing and perception: Recording electrical signals simultaneously from many neurons in awake behaving monkeys I investigate the role of synchrony amoung neurons in information processing and perception. Although a  considerable number of neurons synchronize their activity at the millisecond timescale, our data do not indicate that this synchronization is related to perceptual binding However, synchronous activity is likely to play a role in detection of weak stimuli.  A short pulse of activity (most likely to occur simultaneously in main neurons) is the best determinant of reaction times on a trial by trial basis in contrast perception near threshold.       Thiele, Hoffmann (in preparation)

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