Mechanisms gating the flow of information in the cortex: What they might look like and what their uses may be

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Gisiger, Thomas ^a   Boukadoum, Mounir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Bistable neurons; Cortex; Gating; Information flow; Neural circuits; Thalamus; Up and down states

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE;

BASAL GANGLIA; BISTABLE NEURONS; CORTEX; GATING; INFORMATION FLOWS; NEURAL CIRCUITS; THALAMUS; UP AND DOWN STATES;

NEURONS;

ACTION POTENTIAL; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; IMAGING; THALAMUS;

EID: 84955441833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2011.00001     Document Type: Article

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