The thalamus as a low pass filter: filtering at the cellular level does not equate with filtering at the network level.

In the mammalian central nervous system, most sensory information passes through primary sensory thalamic nuclei, however the consequence of this remains unclear. Various propositions exist, likening the thalamus to a gate, or a high pass filter. Here, using a simple leaky integrate and fire model b...

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Main Authors: William Martin Connelly, Michael eLaing, Adam Clarke Errington, Vincenzo eCrunelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Neural Circuits
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncir.2015.00089/full