The Role of Thalamic Population Synchrony in the Emergence of Cortical Feature Selectivity

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kelly, Sean T ^a   Kremkow, Jens ^b   Jin, Jianzhong ^b   Wang, Yushi ^b   Wang, Qi ^c   Alonso, Jose Manuel ^b   Stanley, Garrett B ^a  

^a Emory University   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTEXES; CORTICAL NEURONS; FEATURE SELECTIVITY; FEED FORWARD; INHIBITORY MECHANISM; INPUT MECHANISMS; ORIENTATION SELECTIVITY; PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX; SUB-POPULATIONS; SYNTHESISED;

SYNCHRONIZATION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; GENICULATE BODY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; ROOT CORTEX CELL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPIKE WAVE; STRIATE CORTEX; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CATS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GENICULATE BODIES; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84896739238     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003418     Document Type: Article

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