Current Biology
Volume 6, Issue 4, April 1996, Pages 395-397
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Neurophysiology: The changing face of inhibition

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Abstract

Inhibition is commonly thought to suppress neuronal responses, but new discoveries suggest that it may also gate transmission by coordinating the temporal patterning of neuronal responses and so play an important part in information processing in the brain.

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Wolf Singer, Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research, Deutschordenstrasse 46, D-60528 Frankfurt, Germany.