Paired-spike interactions and synaptic efficacy of retinal inputs to the thalamus
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The timing of afferent impulses in many neural systems studied in vitro affect the strength of postsynaptic potentials. The importance of afferent spike timing in vivo is studied through simultaneously recordings from ganglion cells in the retina and their targets in the thalamus. It is proposed that information encoded in the high firing rates of the individual retinal ganglion cell are distributed amongst several geniculate neurons, firing synchronously.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1998
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Motion integration in a thalamic visual nucleus
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Motion signal integration is believed to be a two-stage process and it is argued that first stage involving analysis of object features, is coding limited. A studied showed that a subset of neurons in an extrageniculate visual nucleus can give true direction signals for the motion of a plaid pattern suggesting that thalamic cells can incorporate differing motion signals into a coherent moving percept.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1998
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Retrospective and prospective coding for predicted reward in the sensory thalamus
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Research describing the thalamic neurons response to reward related events is presented. In particular two responses are investigated, early phasic and late prospective coding.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2001
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