On the Number of Neurons and Time Scale of Integration Underlying the Formation of Percepts in the Brain

Adrien Wohrer; Christian K. Machens

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004082

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On the Number of Neurons and Time Scale of Integration Underlying the Formation of Percepts in the Brain

Adrien Wohrer ,

* E-mail: adrien.wohrer@udamail.fr

Current address: Image-Guided Clinical Neurosciences and Connectomics, EA 7282, Université d’Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Affiliation Group for Neural Theory, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, INSERM U960, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
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Christian K. Machens

Affiliations Group for Neural Theory, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, INSERM U960, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal
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On the Number of Neurons and Time Scale of Integration Underlying the Formation of Percepts in the Brain

Adrien Wohrer,
Christian K. Machens

Published: March 20, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004082

About the Authors

Adrien Wohrer

* E-mail: adrien.wohrer@udamail.fr

Current address: Image-Guided Clinical Neurosciences and Connectomics, EA 7282, Université d’Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Affiliation Group for Neural Theory, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, INSERM U960, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

Christian K. Machens

Affiliations Group for Neural Theory, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, INSERM U960, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AW CM. Performed the experiments: AW. Analyzed the data: AW. Wrote the paper: AW CM.

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