The impact of the human thalamus on brain-wide information processing

JM Shine, LD Lewis, DD Garrett… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The thalamus is a small, bilateral structure in the diencephalon that integrates signals from
many areas of the CNS. This critical anatomical position allows the thalamus to influence …

The brain and its time: intrinsic neural timescales are key for input processing

M Golesorkhi, J Gomez-Pilar, F Zilio… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
We process and integrate multiple timescales into one meaningful whole. Recent evidence
suggests that the brain displays a complex multiscale temporal organization. Different …

Integrative and network-specific connectivity of the basal ganglia and thalamus defined in individuals

DJ Greene, S Marek, EM Gordon, JS Siegel, C Gratton… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
The basal ganglia, thalamus, and cerebral cortex form an interconnected network implicated
in many neurological and psychiatric illnesses. A better understanding of cortico-subcortical …

Topographic gradients of intrinsic dynamics across neocortex

G Shafiei, RD Markello, R Vos de Wael, BC Bernhardt… - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
The intrinsic dynamics of neuronal populations are shaped by both microscale attributes and
macroscale connectome architecture. Here we comprehensively characterize the rich …

A set of functionally-defined brain regions with improved representation of the subcortex and cerebellum

BA Seitzman, C Gratton, S Marek, RV Raut… - Neuroimage, 2020 - Elsevier
An important aspect of network-based analysis is robust node definition. This issue is critical
for functional brain network analyses, as poor node choice can lead to spurious findings and …

Beyond cortex: The evolution of the human brain.

R Chin, SWC Chang, AJ Holmes - Psychological Review, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Human evolution has been marked by a striking increase in total brain volume relative to
body size. While a prominent and characteristic feature of this volumetric shift has been the …

Behavior needs neural variability

L Waschke, NA Kloosterman, J Obleser, DD Garrett - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
Human and non-human animal behavior is highly malleable and adapts successfully to
internal and external demands. Such behavioral success stands in striking contrast to the …

Thalamocortical contributions to cognitive task activity

K Hwang, JM Shine, MW Cole, E Sorenson - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Thalamocortical interaction is a ubiquitous functional motif in the mammalian brain.
Previously (Hwang et al., 2021), we reported that lesions to network hubs in the human …

Thalamocortical excitability modulation guides human perception under uncertainty

JQ Kosciessa, U Lindenberger, DD Garrett - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Knowledge about the relevance of environmental features can guide stimulus
processing. However, it remains unclear how processing is adjusted when feature relevance …

The low-dimensional neural architecture of cognitive complexity is related to activity in medial thalamic nuclei

JM Shine, LJ Hearne, M Breakspear, K Hwang… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Cognitive activity emerges from large-scale neuronal dynamics that are constrained to a low-
dimensional manifold. How this low-dimensional manifold scales with cognitive complexity …