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Challenges and opportunities for large-scale electrophysiology with Neuropixels probes
Electrophysiological methods are the gold standard in neuroscience because they reveal the activity of individual neurons at high temporal resolution and in arbitrary brain locations. Microelectrode arrays based on complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology, such as Neuropixels probes...
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Current Biology
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5999351/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29444488 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2018.01.009 |
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author | Steinmetz, Nicholas A Koch, Christof Harris, Kenneth D Carandini, Matteo |
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description | Electrophysiological methods are the gold standard in neuroscience because they reveal the activity of individual neurons at high temporal resolution and in arbitrary brain locations. Microelectrode arrays based on complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology, such as Neuropixels probes, look set to transform these methods. Neuropixels probes provide ∼1000 recording sites on an extremely narrow shank, with on-board amplification, digitization, and multiplexing. They deliver low-noise recordings from hundreds of neurons, providing a step change in the type of data available to neuroscientists. Here we discuss the opportunities afforded by these probes for large-scale electrophysiology, the challenges associated with data processing and anatomical localization, and avenues for further improvements of the technology. |
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spelling | pubmed-59993512018-06-14 Challenges and opportunities for large-scale electrophysiology with Neuropixels probes Steinmetz, Nicholas A Koch, Christof Harris, Kenneth D Carandini, Matteo Curr Opin Neurobiol Article Electrophysiological methods are the gold standard in neuroscience because they reveal the activity of individual neurons at high temporal resolution and in arbitrary brain locations. Microelectrode arrays based on complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology, such as Neuropixels probes, look set to transform these methods. Neuropixels probes provide ∼1000 recording sites on an extremely narrow shank, with on-board amplification, digitization, and multiplexing. They deliver low-noise recordings from hundreds of neurons, providing a step change in the type of data available to neuroscientists. Here we discuss the opportunities afforded by these probes for large-scale electrophysiology, the challenges associated with data processing and anatomical localization, and avenues for further improvements of the technology. Current Biology 2018-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5999351/ /pubmed/29444488 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2018.01.009 Text en © 2018 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Steinmetz, Nicholas A Koch, Christof Harris, Kenneth D Carandini, Matteo Challenges and opportunities for large-scale electrophysiology with Neuropixels probes |
title | Challenges and opportunities for large-scale electrophysiology with Neuropixels probes |
title_full | Challenges and opportunities for large-scale electrophysiology with Neuropixels probes |
title_fullStr | Challenges and opportunities for large-scale electrophysiology with Neuropixels probes |
title_full_unstemmed | Challenges and opportunities for large-scale electrophysiology with Neuropixels probes |
title_short | Challenges and opportunities for large-scale electrophysiology with Neuropixels probes |
title_sort | challenges and opportunities for large-scale electrophysiology with neuropixels probes |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5999351/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29444488 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2018.01.009 |
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