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Local and global dynamical control parameters are not so easily separated

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2000

David T. J. Liley
Affiliation:
School of Biophysical Sciences and Electrical Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australiadliley@swin.edu.au marr.bsee.swin.edu.au/~dtl

Abstract

Hierarchical systems such as cortical tissue will indeed exhibit dynamics that are scale-dependent, but Nunez's conjecture that theoretically independent transfer functions for each level can be specified and then combined ignores the fact that, in cortex, the same excitatory neuronal populations will contribute to both local and global dynamics.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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