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"A Computational Perspective of the Role of the Thalamus in Cognition"
mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.11…
"A Computational Perspective of the Role of the Thalamus in Cognition"
mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.11…
We start with the architecture and circuitry of thalamus and cortical afferents and efferents to point to the non-unitary role of thalamus in integrating information. This perspective highlights the modulatory role of thalamus.
We suggest the computational role for thalamus in the dynamic selection of cortical representations through a combination of intrinsic thalamic computations and output signals that change cortical network functional parameters.
We propose that through the contextual modulation of cortical computation, the thalamus and cortex jointly optimize the information and cost trade-off in an emergent fashion.
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