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The fast oscillations induced in the piriform cortex in response to olfactory stimuli were first recorded some 50 years ago [1]. Since then, 30–80 Hz oscillations (also called gamma) have been found in many other cortical areas as well [4]. The ubiquity of stimulus-induced oscillatory activity in the brain suggests that the neural activity that underlies such oscillations might be critical to neural computation [2]. The question then becomes: How does one elucidate the neural activity that gives rise to these oscillations?
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Protopapas, A.D., Bower, J.M. (1997). Pyramidal Cell Response to Patterns of Synaptic Input Believed to Underlie Gamma Oscillations. In: Bower, J.M. (eds) Computational Neuroscience. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9800-5_29
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