Dynamic circuit motifs underlying rhythmic gain control, gating and integration

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1031-1039

  Womelsdorf, Thilo ^a,b   Valiante, Taufik A ^c,d   Sahin, Ned T ^e,f   Miller, Kai J ^g,h   Tiesinga, Paul ⁱ  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e Brain Power LLC   (United States)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^h STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ALTERNATING CURRENT; ASSERTIVENESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL POPULATION; DECISION MAKING; DYNAMIC CIRCUIT MOTIF; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GAP JUNCTION; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SENSORY GATING; SENSORY STIMULATION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN WAVES; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PERIODICITY;

EID: 84904997336     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3764     Document Type: Review

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