Debating Drama in the Early Modern University: John Case, Aristotle's , and a Previously Unknown Oxford Disputation.

This article presents evidence of a previously unknown seventeenth-century disputation at the University of Oxford on the controversial subject of theatrical performance. The evidence appears in the student notebook of Edmund Leigh, who received his BA from Brasenose College in 1604, and who was a protégé of the renowned scholar and theologian John Rainolds. Leigh's notes, which are drawn mainly from Aristotle's Politics and John Case's commentary on that text, provide valuable insight into academic debates over drama.

Collective bursting in layer IV. Synchronization by small thalamic inputs and recurrent connections.

Layer IV is believed to be the cortical signal amplifier, for example, of thalamic signals. A previous spiny stellate recurrent network model of this layer is made more realistic by the addition of inhibitory basket neurons. We study the persistence and characteristics of previously observed collective firing behavior, and investigate what additional features would need to be implemented to generate in vivo type neuronal firing.