@article{395fa2fa8afa48adb50c601b76dfc419,
title = "A hierarchy of intrinsic timescales across primate cortex",
abstract = "Specialization and hierarchy are organizing principles for primate cortex, yet there is little direct evidence for how cortical areas are specialized in the temporal domain. We measured timescales of intrinsic fluctuations in spiking activity across areas and found a hierarchical ordering, with sensory and prefrontal areas exhibiting shorter and longer timescales, respectively. On the basis of our findings, we suggest that intrinsic timescales reflect areal specialization for task-relevant computations over multiple temporal ranges.",
author = "Murray, {John D.} and Alberto Bernacchia and Freedman, {David J.} and Ranulfo Romo and Wallis, {Jonathan D.} and Xinying Cai and Camillo Padoa-Schioppa and Tatiana Pasternak and Hyojung Seo and Daeyeol Lee and Wang, {Xiao Jing}",
note = "Funding Information: We thank R. Chaudhuri and H.F. Song for discussions, and W. Chaisangmongkon and A. Ponce-Alvarez for assistance with data sets. Funding was provided by US Office of Naval Research grant N00014-13-1-0297 and US National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant R01MH062349 (X.-J.W.); NIH grant R01DA029330 (D.L.); NIH grants R01EY11749 and T32EY07125 (T.P.); NIH grant R01DA032758 and Whitehall Foundation grant 2010-12-13 (C.P.-S.); NIH grants R01DA19028 and P01NS040813 (J.D.W.); grants from Direcci{\'o}n General de Asuntos del Personal Acad{\'e}mico–Universidad Nacional Aut{\'o}noma de M{\'e}xico and Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnolog{\'i}a M{\'e}xico (R.R.); and NIH grant R01EY019041 (D.J.F.). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014 Nature America, Inc. All rights reserved.",
year = "2014",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1038/nn.3862",
language = "English",
volume = "17",
pages = "1661--1663",
journal = "Nature Neuroscience",
issn = "1097-6256",
number = "12",
}