The cognitive thalamus

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Saalmann, Yuri B ^a   Kastner, Sabine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior thalamus; Intralaminar thalamus; Mediodorsal thalamus; Pulvinar; Thalamocortical interactions

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; BASAL GANGLION; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONDITIONING; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LEARNING; MOTOR CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PULVINAR; SPATIAL MEMORY; THALAMUS; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; THALAMUS INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84928167556     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2015.00039     Document Type: Editorial

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