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. 2016 Jan 6;89(1):5-7.
doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.12.022.

Pondering the Pulvinar

Peter Lakatos  1 , Monica N O'Connell  2 , Annamaria Barczak  2
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Pondering the Pulvinar

Peter Lakatos et al. Neuron. .

Abstract

While the function of the pulvinar remains one of the least explored among the thalamic nuclei despite occupying the most thalamic volume in primates, it has long been suspected to play a crucial role in attentive stimulus processing. In this issue of Neuron, Zhou et al. (2016) use simultaneous pulvinar-visual cortex recordings and pulvinar inactivation to provide evidence that the pulvinar is essential for intact stimulus processing, maintenance of neuronal oscillatory dynamics, and mediating the effects of attention.

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Driving and Timing of Cortical Information Processing by a Dual Thalamic Core-Matrix Organized System
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