Edited by
V. Casagrande
S. Sherman, State University of New York, Stony Brook, U.S.A.
Ray Guillery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison, U.S.A.
Description
Almost all of the messages that are received by the cerebral cortex from the environment or from the body's internal receptors come through
the thalamus and much current thought about perceptual processing is based on sensory pathways that relay in the thalamus. This volume
focuses on three major areas: the role of thalamocortical communication in cognition and attention; the role of the thalamus in communication
between cortical areas; the hypothesis that much or all of the information relayed by thalamus, even to classical, pure "sensory" areas
of cortex, represents a corollary message being sent simultaneously to motor centers. It presents a broad overview of important recent
advances in these areas.
Included in series
Progress in Brain Research
Audience:
Neuroscientists, neurologists.
