“…Majority of these models simulate the interaction among excitatory and inhibitory cortical populations and thalamic relay and reticular nuclei involved in generation of the EEG [ 84 , 85 , 86 , 87 , 88 , 89 , 90 , 91 , 92 , 93 , 94 , 95 ]; some of the models account for cortical dynamics without explicitly incorporating the thalamus [ 96 , 97 ]. Collectively, these models reproduce sleep and wake EEG features and propose mechanisms for how these features are generated at the level of interacting neuronal populations.…”