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A finely tuned cortical amplifier

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Three studies in visual and auditory cortex show that intracortical excitatory inputs amplify incoming sensory signals, as their sensory tuning is closely matched to that arriving from the sensory thalamus.

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Figure 1: Dissecting the contributions of thalamocortical and intracortical excitation to total excitation in layer 4 neurons in mouse visual cortex.

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  1. Yunyun Han and Thomas Mrsic-Flogel are at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.,

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