Austin J. Mendoza

The paper models thalamocortical networks to show that electrical coupling in the TRN reduces cortical correlation to sensory inputs, increasing response rates and duration.

The paper investigates how two types of inhibitory neurons in the thalamic reticular nucleus differentially modulate sound processing in the auditory thalamus.

The paper uses multi-compartmental models to show that electrical synapse asymmetry arises from multiple factors and affects spike timing between coupled neurons.