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

The notion of gating as a mechanism capable of controlling the flow of information from one set of neurons to another, has been studied in many regions of the central nervous system. In the nucleus accumbens, where evidence is especially clear, gating seems to rely on the action of bistable neurons,...

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Main Authors: Thomas Gisiger, Mounir Boukadoum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncom.2011.00001/full