p230fig05.38 The Synchronous Matching ART, or SMART, model includes spiking neurons in a laminar cortical hierarchy.  I developed SMART with my PhD student Massimiliano Versace.  By unlumping LAMINART to include spiking neurons, finer details of neurodynamics, such as the existence of faster gamma oscillations during good enough matches, and slower beta oscillations during bad enough mismatches, could be shown as emergent properties of network interactions.<BR>||  Second order thalamus -> specific thalamic nucleus -> Thalamic reticulate nucleus -> neocortical laminar circuit [6ll, 6l, 5, 2/3, 1] -> Higher order cortex.  Similar for First order thalamus -> First order cortex, with interconnection to Second order, nonspecific thalamic nucleus