Layer-dependent attentional processing by top-down signals in a visual cortical microcircuit model

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wagatsuma, Nobuhiko ^a,b   Potjans, Tobias C ^c,d,e   Diesmann, Markus ^a,c,d   Fukai, Tomoki ^a,d,f  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d Brain and Neural Systems Team   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^f JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computational model; Laminar organization; Large scale simulation; Orientation column; Visual attention; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; INFORMATION SCIENCE;

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; ATTENTIONAL INFORMATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CORTICAL MICROCIRCUITS; LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUAL CORTEXES; VISUAL INFORMATION PROCESSING;

NEURONS;

ATTENTION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; MODULATION; SYNAPSE;

EID: 84959488664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2011.00031     Document Type: Article

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