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Mainen, Z.F. and Sejnowski, T.J., 1995. Reliability of spike timing in neocortical neurons. Science, 268(5216), pp.1503-1506.

Brette, R., 2015. Philosophy of the spike: rate-based vs. spike-based theories of the brain. Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 9, p.151.

Tiesinga, P., Fellous, J.M. and Sejnowski, T.J., 2008. Regulation of spike timing in visual cortical circuits. Nature reviews neuroscience, 9(2), p.97.

 

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Further reading

Butts, D.A., Weng, C., Jin, J., Yeh, C.I., Lesica, N.A., Alonso, J.M. and Stanley, G.B., 2007. Temporal precision in the neural code and the timescales of natural vision. Nature, 449(7158), p.92.