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. 2019 Jun;193:103–114. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.03.009

Table 1.

Prior expectations set for the parameters of the baseline condition (Low beta). CT-corticothalamic projections; TC-thalamocortical projections; MMC – motor microcircuit; THAL-thalamus; SP- superficial pyramidal cells; MP- middle pyramidal cells; DP – deep pyramidal cells.

Parameters Description Prior means
(μ)
Log-scaling parameters (π,σ2)
γ114mmc Synaptic coupling strengths motor cortex [Hz] [800 800 800 800 800 400 800 800 400 200 400 800 800 400] 0, 1/16
T14mmc Time constant [msec] of cell populations motor cortex: [MP, SP, II, DP] [8 8 8 8] 0, 1/16
γ13tcr Synaptic coupling strengths motor thalamus [Hz] [800 800 800] 0, 1/64
T12tcr Time constants [msec] cell populations thalamus: [RET; REL] [8 8] 0, 1/64
λ14 Extrinsic connections strengths: [CT and TC]
[Hz]
[800 800 800 800] 0, 1/16
B18 Condition-specific effects (on coupling strengths): [0] 0, 1/8
Rmmc Slope sigmoidal function: 2/3 0, 1/32
Rtcr Slope sigmoidal function: 2/3 0, 1/16
d12 Intrinsic delays [msec]: [within MMC; within THAL] [1] 0,0
D12 Extrinsic delays [msec]: [from MMC to THAL; from THAL to MMC] [8] 0,0
αc,βc Channel unspecific observation noise [0 0] 0, 1/128
αs,βs Channel specific observation noise [0 0] 0, 1/128
L Observation gain [1] 0, 64
J Contributing states: [SP, MP, DP] [0.6 0.2 0.2] 0, 1/16
hE Log-precision of observed data 12 0, 1/32