Attentional activation of the visual thalamic reticular nucleus depends on 'top-down' inputs from the primary visual cortex via corticogeniculate pathways

Brain Research

Volumn 864, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 95-104

  Montero, Vicente M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognition; Consciousness; Corticothalamic; Lateral geniculate nucleus; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; IBOTENIC ACID; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; INTERNEURON; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; LATERAL RETICULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; DENERVATION; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENICULATE BODIES; IBOTENIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0034607601     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(00)02182-X     Document Type: Article

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