SynthesisHuman brain mapping2015
Human pulvinar functional organization and connectivity.
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54 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 109 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Pulvinar subdivisions and connectivity patterns across primate species: a comparative perspective.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2026Review
- Robust thalamic nuclei segmentation using spectral clustering of fiber orientation distributions.PloS one · 2026Article
- Disrupted thalamocortical functional connectivity and canonical resting-state network integration in posttraumatic stress disorder.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2026Article
- Two opposing yet complementary ocular dominance plasticities: thalamus strengthens the weak channel while higher cortex listens to the strong signal.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Spatially global effects of feature-based attention in functional subdivisions of human subcortical nuclei.Communications biology · 2025Article
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- A multimodal characterization of low-dimensional thalamocortical structural connectivity patterns.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Functional connectivity of thalamic nuclei during sensorimotor task-based fMRI at 9.4 Tesla.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Track-Weighted Dynamic Functional Connectivity Profiles and Topographic Organization of the Human Pulvinar.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
- The human subthalamic nucleus transiently inhibits active attentional processes.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2024Article
- Multimodal study of multilevel pulvino-temporal connections: a new piece in the puzzle of lexical retrieval networks.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2024Article
- Distinct neural signatures of pulvinar in C9orf72 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis mutation carriers and noncarriers.European journal of neurology · 2024Article
- Subcortical contributions to the sense of body ownership.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2024Article
- Multiple focal pulvinar projection fields in the macaque cortex.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Human subcortical pathways automatically detect collision trajectory without attention and awareness.PLoS biology · 2024Article
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4 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
The human pulvinar is the largest thalamic area in terms of size and cortical connectivity. Although much is known about regional pulvinar structural anatomy, relatively little is known about pulvinar functional anatomy in humans. Cooccurrence of experimentally induced brain activity is a traditional metric used to establish interregional brain connectivity and forms the foundation of functional neuroimaging connectivity analyses. Because functional neuroimaging studies report task-related coactivations within a standardized space, meta-analysis of many whole-brain studies can define the brain's interregional coactivation across many tasks. Such an analysis can also detect and define variations in functional coactivations within a particular region. Here we use coactivation profiles reported in ∼ 7,700 functional neuroimaging studies to parcellate and define the pulvinar's functional anatomy. Parcellation of the pulvinar's coactivation profile identified five clusters per pulvinar of distinct functional coactivation. These clusters showed a high degree of symmetry across hemispheres and correspondence with the human pulvinar's cytoarchitecture. We investigated the functional coactivation profiles of each resultant pulvinar cluster with meta-analytic methods. By referencing existent neuroimaging and lesion-deficit literature, these profiles make a case for regional pulvinar specialization within the larger human attention-controlling network. Reference to this literature also informs specific hypotheses that can be tested in subsequent studies in healthy and clinical populations.
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