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ReviewTrends in cognitive sciences2011

Thalamic pathways for active vision.

Robert H Wurtz, Kerry McAlonan, James Cavanaugh, Rebecca A Berman

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Review in Trends in cognitive sciences, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

58 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Altering spatial priority maps via reward-based learning.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2014
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  2. Endogenous attention signals evoked by threshold contrast detection in human superior colliculus.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2014
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  9. A sensory-motor theory of the neocortex.Nature neuroscience · 2024
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  20. Generative Models for Active Vision.Frontiers in neurorobotics · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Robert H WurtzLaboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. bob@lsr.nei.nih.gov
Kerry McAlonan
James Cavanaugh
Rebecca A Berman

Funding

Visual Processing In The Primate BrainZIAEY000109 · NEI · NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE · PI WURTZ, ROBERT H. · 2009 to 2016
$10.2M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA EY000109
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Active vision requires the integration of information coming from the retina with that generated internally within the brain, especially by saccadic eye movements. Just as visual information reaches cortex via the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus, this internal information reaches the cerebral cortex through other higher-order nuclei of the thalamus. This review summarizes recent work on four of these thalamic nuclei. The first two pathways convey internal information about upcoming saccades (a corollary discharge) and probably contribute to the neuronal mechanisms that underlie stable visual perception. The second two pathways might contribute to the neuronal mechanisms underlying visual spatial attention in cortex and in the thalamus itself.

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AnimalsAttentionHumansModels, BiologicalNerve NetThalamusVision, OcularVisual CortexVisual Pathways

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PMID21414835
PMCPMC3070860

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