Auditory thalamic reticular nucleus of the rat: Anatomical nodes for modulation of auditory and cross-modal sensory processing in the loop connectivity between the cortex and thalamus

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 520, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1457-1480

  Kimura, Akihisa ^a   Yokoi, Isao ^a   Imbe, Hiroki ^a   Donishi, Tomohiro ^a   Kaneoke, Yoshiki ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attention; Somatosensory; Tonotopic; Topography; Visceral; Visual

Indexed keywords

AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 1; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY FEEDBACK; AUDITORY RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; THALAMUS RETICULAR NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 84857960608     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22805     Document Type: Article

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