APStracts 2:0196N, 1995.

The effect of stimulation on burst firing in cat primary auditory cortex. Bowman, Denise M., Jos J. Eggermont and Geoff M. Smith. Behavioural Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Psychology, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

APStracts 2:0196N, 1995.

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
1. Neural activity was recorded extracellularly with two independent microelectrodes, aligned in parallel, and advanced perpendicular to isofrequency sheets in cat primary auditory cortex. Multi-unit activity was separated into single unit spike trains using a maximum variance spike sorting algorithm. Only units which demonstrated a high quality of sorting and a minimum spontaneous firing rate of 0.2 spikes/sec were considered for analysis. The primary aim of this study was to describe the effect of periodic click train and broad band noise stimulation on short time scale (

Received 4 January 1995; accepted in final form 19 June 1995.
APS Manuscript Number J5-5.
Article publication pending J. Neurophysiol.
ISSN 1080-4757 Copyright 1995 The American Physiological Society.
Published in APStracts on 30 July 1995.