Higher order thalamic neurons receive driving inputs from cortical layer 5 and project back to
the cortex, reflecting a transthalamic route for corticocortical communication. To determine …

Higher-order thalamic nuclei contribute to sensory processing via projections to primary and
higher cerebral cortical areas, but it is unknown which of their cortical and subcortical inputs …

Thalamus is a potent driver of cortical activity even though cortical synapses onto excitatory
layer 4 neurons outnumber thalamic synapses 10 to 1. Previous in vitro studies have …

All pathways targeting the thalamus terminate directly onto the thalamic projection cells. As
these cells lack local excitatory interconnections, their computations are fundamentally …

The thalamus is an essential structure in the mammalian forebrain conveying information
topographically from the sensory periphery to primary neocortical areas. Beyond this initial …

Knowledge of thalamocortical (TC) processing comes mainly from studying core thalamic
systems that project to middle layers of primary sensory cortices. However, most thalamic …

We now know that sensory processing in cortex occurs not only via direct communication
between primary to secondary areas, but also via their parallel cortico-thalamo-cortical (ie …

Most glutamatergic inputs in the neocortex originate from the thalamus or neocortical
pyramidal cells. To test whether thalamocortical afferents selectively innervate specific …

Corticothalamic pathways, responsible for the top-down control of the thalamus, have a
canonical organization such that every cortical region sends output from both layer 6 (L6) …

Neurons in the thalamorecipient layers of sensory cortices integrate thalamic and recurrent
cortical input. Cortical neurons form fine-scale, functionally cotuned networks, but whether …