@article {68253,
	title = {Not so spontaneous: Multi-dimensional representations of behaviors and context in sensory areas.},
	journal = {Neuron},
	volume = {110},
	year = {2022},
	month = {2022 Oct 05},
	pages = {3064},
	abstract = {<p>Sensory areas are spontaneously active in the absence of sensory stimuli. This spontaneous activity has long been studied; however, its functional role remains largely unknown. Recent advances in technology, allowing large-scale neural recordings in the awake and behaving animal, have transformed our understanding of spontaneous activity. Studies using these recordings have discovered high-dimensional spontaneous activity patterns, correlation between spontaneous activity and behavior, and dissimilarity between spontaneous and sensory-driven activity patterns. These findings are supported by evidence from developing animals, where a transition toward these characteristics is observed as the circuit matures, as well as by evidence from mature animals across species. These newly revealed characteristics call for the formulation of a new role for spontaneous activity in neural sensory computation.</p>
},
	issn = {1097-4199},
	doi = {10.1016/j.neuron.2022.06.019},
	author = {Avitan, Lilach and Stringer, Carsen}
}
