Bypassing primary sensory cortices-a direct thalamocortical pathway for transmitting salient sensory information

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-11

  Liang, M ^a   Mouraux, A ^b   Iannetti, G D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

anterior cingulate cortex; dynamic causal modeling; functional magnetic resonance imaging; insular cortex; sensory processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REFLEX; SENSATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS;

EID: 84870810118     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr363     Document Type: Article

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