Disentangled Assembly Codes Emerge in a Model for a Layer 2/3 Microcircuit Motif
Material below summarizes the article Feedback Inhibition Shapes Emergent Computational Properties Of Cortical Microcircuit Motifs, published on July 31, 2017, inJNeurosci and authored by Zeno Jonke, Robert Legenstein, Stefan Habenschuss, and Wolfgang Maass.
The neocortex, which serves higher-order functions such as sensory perception, motor control, and cognition, is one of the most enigmatic structures of the mammalian brain.
There exists ample evidence that the vertical structure of the neocortex — the so-called cortical column — is repeated throughout the cortical sheet. However, the computational function of the cortical column is still unknown.
In our article, we used computer simulations to study the computational properties of a model of one of the most prominent microcircuit motifs of the cortical column: densely interconnected populations of pyramidal neurons and parvalbumin positive (PV+) inhibitory interneurons in cortical layer 2/3.
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