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SUBMITTER: Holcman D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1409813 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Holcman David D Tsodyks Misha M
PLoS computational biology 20060324 3
The cerebral cortex is continuously active in the absence of external stimuli. An example of this spontaneous activity is the voltage transition between an Up and a Down state, observed simultaneously at individual neurons. Since this phenomenon could be of critical importance for working memory and attention, its explanation could reveal some fundamental properties of cortical organization. To identify a possible scenario for the dynamics of Up-Down states, we analyze a reduced stochastic dynam ...[more]