The role of the thalamus in the flow of information to the cortex.

By S. M. Sherman, R. Guillery. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2002

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Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience

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Is 2 + 2 = 4? Meta-analyses of brain areas needed for numbers and calculations (2011, result): “It has been suggested that thalamic gating affects cortico–thalamo–cortical (Nadeau, 2008) and cortico-cortical communications (Sherman and Guillery, 2002), a hypothesis that is in agreement with the notion that an a priori goal can influence the function of subcortical regions such as the basal…”
The minority report: some common assumptions to reconsider in the modelling of the brain and behaviour (2016, background): “…connections in the feedforward hierarchy are dwarfed by other inﬂuences: in the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus, only 5–10% of the input comes from the retina, the rest descending from layer 6 of various visual cortical areas and ascending from the brainstem (Sherman & Guillery, 2002).”
The human vestibular cortex revealed by coordinate-based activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis. (2012, neutral): “The pulvinar is considered as a second-order thalamic relay involved in complex thalamo-cortico-thalamic loops (Sherman and Guillery, 2002) and projecting to the extrastriate, temporal and posterior temporal cortex (Jones, 1985).”
Low-frequency neuronal oscillations as instruments of sensory selection (2008, positive): “Based on these characteristics, we suggest that the auditory and somatosensory responses reflect ‘driving’ and ‘modulatory’ inputs, respectively, similar to the proposition of Sherman and Guillery [19].”
Towards a Mathematical Theory of Cortical Micro-circuits (2009, background): “It is known that thalamus plays an important role in cortico-cortical communication, acting as a dynamic control of information passed from one cortical area to another [57,73].”
2007 Special Issue: Consciousness CLEARS the mind (2007, neutral): “…Lateral Geniculate Nucleus, LGN) relay sensory information to the cerebral cortex, whereas specific second-order thalamic nuclei receive their main input from lower-order cortical areas, notably from layer 5, and relay this information to higher-order cortical areas (Sherman and Guillery, 2002).”
How the brain might work: a hierarchical and temporal model for learning and recognition (2008, background): “It is known that thalamus plays an important role in corticocortical communication, acting as a dynamic control of information that is passed from one cortical area to another [88, 73].”
Neural mechanisms of the cognitive model of depression (2011, background): “Pertinent elements of this pathway include the thalamus, responsible for the distribution of afferent signal”
Multisensory integration in auditory and auditory-related areas of cortex (2009, background): “A potentially important thalamic contribution that has not been considered in detail by previous reviews is the pulvinar ‘‘higher-order” thalamocortical loop system (Sherman and Guillery, 2002) and is illustrated in Fig.”
Adaptive Resonance Theory: How a brain learns to consciously attend, learn, and recognize a changing world (2013, methodology): “As illustrated in the SMART macrocircuit, corticothalamocortical pathways work in parallel with corticocortical routes (Maunsell & Van Essen, 1983; Salin & Bullier, 1995; Sherman & Guillery, 2002).”
Frequency Coding of Multisensory Integration in the Local Field Potentials of the Medial Pulvinar (2024, unknown): “In contrast, this prevalence drops sharply at higher frequencies: around 54% in the 35–60 Hz range and just 37% in the 60–120 Hz band.”