Figure 2.

Large-scale architecture of the model. Illustration of the synaptic projections between cortical modules, and between thalamic and cortical modules. Note the presence of long-range thalamocortical and cortico-cortical feedforward inhibition. For the sake of clarity, long-range connections between cortical NMM_i and NMM_j are unidirectional, whereas in the model, PCs of NMM_j also project on neurons of NMM_i. The strength of the synaptic input of PC onto distant VIP cells is larger than the input onto the other distant interneurons (SST, Basket).