The Cognitive Thalamus

• Main Author: Sabine Kastner (auth)
• Other Authors: Yuri B. Saalmann (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; neural synchrony; cognitive control; intralaminar thalamus; mediodorsal thalamus; Memory; Pulvinar; thalamocortical interactions; oscillations; anterior thalamus; Prefrontal Cortex
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Cognitive processing is commonly conceptualized as being restricted to the cerebral cortex. Accordingly, electrophysiology, neuroimaging and lesion studies involving human and animal subjects have almost exclusively focused on defining roles for cerebral cortical areas in cognition. Roles for the th...