This is the readme for the model associated with the paper: Sen-Bhattacharya B, Serrano-Gotarredona T, Balassa L, Bhattacharya A, Stokes AB, Rowley A, Sugiarto I, Furber S (2017) A Spiking Neural Network Model of the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus on the SpiNNaker Machine. Front Neurosci 11:454 This SpiNNaker model was contributed by Dr B Sen-Bhattacharya. SpiNNaker is a specialized hardware platform. See https://spinnakermanchester.github.io/ for more information.