Usrey W Martin
Center for Neuroscience, University of California at Davis, 1544 Newton Court, Davis, California 95616, USA.
Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2002 Aug;12(4):411-7. doi: 10.1016/s0959-4388(02)00339-2.
Although the response properties of sensory neurons in the thalamus and cerebral cortex have been studied for decades, relatively few studies have examined how sensory information is processed at thalamocortical synapses. Recent studies now show that the strength of thalamocortical connections is very dynamic and spike timing plays an important role in determining whether action potentials will be transferred from thalamus to cortex.
尽管丘脑和大脑皮层中感觉神经元的反应特性已被研究了数十年，但相对较少的研究探讨了感觉信息在丘脑皮质突触处是如何被处理的。最近的研究表明，丘脑皮质连接的强度非常动态，并且动作电位发放的时间在决定动作电位是否会从丘脑传递到皮层方面起着重要作用。
