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A wake-up call from the thalamus

Nature Neuroscience volume 4, pages 344–346 (2001)Cite this article

The role of thalamic burst firing in normal behavior has been controversial, but a paper in this issue offers powerful evidence that bursting may serve as a 'wake-up call' to cortex.

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Figure 1: Schematic interpretation of results of Swadlow and Gusev5.
Figure 2: Some properties of burst and tonic firing recorded intracellularly from relay cells of the lateral geniculate nucleus of cats; redrawn from ref. 3.

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