Spike-phase coupling patterns reveal laminar identity in primate cortex

  1. Zachary W Davis  Is a corresponding author
  2. Nicholas M Dotson
  3. Tom P Franken
  4. Lyle Muller  Is a corresponding author
  5. John H Reynolds  Is a corresponding author
  1. The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, United States
  2. Department of Neuroscience, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, United States
  3. Department of Mathematics, Western University, Canada
  4. Brain and Mind Institute, Western University, Canada

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  1. Alicia Izquierdo
    Reviewing Editor; University of California, Los Angeles, United States
  2. John R Huguenard
    Senior Editor; Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
  3. Alexander Thiele
    Reviewer; Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom

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Essential revisions:

1) Authors should define the 'generalized phase' of a 45 Hz-wide signal and the power spectra of the LFP in the analysis.

2) Include Mendoza-Halliday et al. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.30.510398v1 reference with a discussion of this relevant paper to the present report.

3) Include sample sizes in all Figures.

Reviewer #2 (Recommendations for the authors):

The only comment I have is that the authors might want to reference the recent SFN abstract by Andre Bastos about spectral power cross-over in layer IV of different cortical areas.

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.84512.sa1

Author response

Essential revisions:

1) Authors should define the 'generalized phase' of a 45 Hz-wide signal and the power spectra of the LFP in the analysis.

We have added a more thorough description of Generalized Phase (GP) to our methods (page 31, line 541) which should convey intuition about the phase of a signal with broad spectral content. We have also included power spectra of the LFP in our revised manuscript that display the broadband, non-stationary, and non-oscillatory spectral content of the LFP in our marmoset and macaque cortical recordings (New Figure 1-supplemental figure 1).

2) Include Mendoza-Halliday et al. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.30.510398v1 reference with a discussion of this relevant paper to the present report.

We have added a citation to Mendoza-Halliday et al., (2022), in the Discussion section. See text on page 12, Line 278.

3) Include sample sizes in all Figures.

The appropriate sample size used in each figure has been added to each figure legend where it was not already present.

Reviewer #2 (Recommendations for the authors):

The only comment I have is that the authors might want to reference the recent SFN abstract by Andre Bastos about spectral power cross-over in layer IV of different cortical areas.

We thank the Reviewer for their helpful suggestion. We believe that the material covered in this SfN abstract appears in the paper Reviewer 1 suggested we cite (Mendoza-Halliday et al., 2022), which we have now included.

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.84512.sa2

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  1. Zachary W Davis
  2. Nicholas M Dotson
  3. Tom P Franken
  4. Lyle Muller
  5. John H Reynolds
(2023)
Spike-phase coupling patterns reveal laminar identity in primate cortex
eLife 12:e84512.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.84512

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