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Thalamus controls recurrent cortical dynamics

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Previous work has suggested that cortical recurrent circuits can self-sustain their activity without thalamic input. A study now demonstrates that this is not the case in the awake brain, which tightly locks cortical timing to thalamic activity.

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Figure 1: The influence of thalamic inputs in visual cortical responses.

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  1. Jose Manuel Alonso & Harvey A. Swadlow are in the Department of Biological and Visual Sciences, and the Department of Psychology, State University of New York, College of Optometry, New York, New York, USA, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA.,

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Alonso, J., Swadlow, H. Thalamus controls recurrent cortical dynamics. Nat Neurosci 18, 1703–1704 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.4175

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