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Intracellular recordings obtained under cutaneous and lemniscal stimulation show that the afferent fibers can establish excitatory and inhibitory synaptic connections with cuneothalamic neurons [5]. In addition, distinct types of recurrent collaterals with the capability of either exciting or inhibiting both cuneothalamic neurons and interneurons were also discovered [6]. With these data we have generated hypothesis about which circuits are implicated and also developed realistic computational models to test the hypothesis and study the cuneate properties [17],[18]. The results show that the cuneate could perform spatial and temporal filtering and therefore detect dynamic edges.
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Sroseanchez, E., Barro, S., Mariño, J., Canedo, A. (2001). A Realistic Computational Model of the Local Circuitry of the Cuneate Nucleus. In: Mira, J., Prieto, A. (eds) Connectionist Models of Neurons, Learning Processes, and Artificial Intelligence. IWANN 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2084. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45720-8_3
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