Cognitive and Perceptual Functions of the Visual Thalamus

Neuron

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 209-223

  Saalmann, Yuri B ^a   Kastner, Sabine ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; REVIEW; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; HUMANS; PERCEPTION; THALAMUS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 79960629550     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.06.027     Document Type: Review

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