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Nature Neuroscience 12, 1359 - 1360 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nn1109-1359

Optimizing brain processing

Alexander Thiele1

  1. The author is at the Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Correspondence to: Alexander Thiele1 e-mail: alex.thiele@ncl.ac.uk


Cholinergic neurons in the basal forebrain enable alert and attending brain states. A study now shows how basal forebrain activity increases coding abilities of cortical neurons and at what stages these changes occur.

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