Spikes, synchrony, and attentive learning by laminar thalamocortical circuits

Brain Research

Volumn 1218, Issue , 2008, Pages 278-312

  Grossberg, Stephen ^a   Versace, Massimiliano ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Adaptive Resonance Theory; Attention; Beta oscillations; Bottom up filter; Cortical layers; Gamma oscillations; Learning; LGN; Local field potentials; Match; Mismatch; Mismatch negativity; Prediction; Pulvinar; Spikes; STDP; Synchronization; Top down expectation; V1; V2

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE;

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EXPECTATION; ION CURRENT; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMORY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; LEARNING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; THALAMUS;

EID: 46649121008     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.04.024     Document Type: Article

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