Evidence map›Paper›PMID 24201278›Full record

ReviewNature2013

Cortical connectivity and sensory coding.

Kenneth D Harris, Thomas D Mrsic-Flogel

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Review in Nature, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 346 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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346citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

346 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Kenneth D Harris1] UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK [2] UCL Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, 21 University Street, London WC1E 6DE, UK.
Thomas D Mrsic-Flogel

Funding

Wellcome Trust 095668
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The sensory cortex contains a wide array of neuronal types, which are connected together into complex but partially stereotyped circuits. Sensory stimuli trigger cascades of electrical activity through these circuits, causing specific features of sensory scenes to be encoded in the firing patterns of cortical populations. Recent research is beginning to reveal how the connectivity of individual neurons relates to the sensory features they encode, how differences in the connectivity patterns of different cortical cell classes enable them to encode information using different strategies, and how feedback connections from higher-order cortex allow sensory information to be integrated with behavioural context.

Indexed as

AnimalsAuditory CortexCerebral CortexInterneuronsModels, NeurologicalNeural PathwaysSensory Receptor CellsSomatosensory CortexVisual Cortex

Identifiers

PMID24201278

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Registered trials

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