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Peaks in more than 5000 spike train correlograms, obtained from monkey striate cortex, were measured. Earlier work had shown qualitatively that there are frequent prominent peaks having widths in a range around 50 ms, and narrower peaks less than about 7 ms wide. Here we demonstrate that the distribution of peak widths shows a dichotomy.
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Krüger, J., Mayer, M. Two types of neuronal synchrony in monkey striate cortex. Biol. Cybern. 64, 135–140 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02331342
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