ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2020
Pulvinar Modulates Contrast Responses in the Visual Cortex as a Function of Cortical Hierarchy.
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- Pulvinar pathways as skip connections in deep neural networks for vision.Frontiers in neuroimaging · 2026Article
- Processing of natural scenes in the human pulvinar.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Higher-order thalamic input to cortex selectively conveys state information.Cell reports · 2025Article
- Transthalamic Pathways for Cortical Function.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Review
- Cortical dynamics of perception as trains of coherent gamma oscillations, with the pulvinar as central coordinator.Brain informatics · 2024Article
- Visual Neurophysiological Biomarkers for Patient Stratification and Treatment Development Across Neuropsychiatric Disorders.Advances in neurobiology · 2024Review
- The dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus and the pulvinar as essential partners for visual cortical functions.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- Conserved patterns of functional organization between cortex and thalamus in mice.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Visual intracortical and transthalamic pathways carry distinct information to cortical areas.Neuron · 2021Article
- Disease-Specific Contribution of Pulvinar Dysfunction to Impaired Emotion Recognition in Schizophrenia.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- Corticothalamic Projections Gate Alpha Rhythms in the Pulvinar.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2021Article
- Corticothalamic Pathways From Layer 5: Emerging Roles in Computation and Pathology.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2021Review
- Dynamic pulvino-cortical interactions in the primate attention network.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2020Review
- Pulvinar Modulates Synchrony across Visual Cortical Areas.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Hierarchical Organization of Corticothalamic Projections to the Pulvinar.Cerebral cortex communications · 2020Article
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Abstract
The pulvinar is the largest extrageniculate visual nucleus in mammals. Given its extensive reciprocal connectivity with the visual cortex, it allows the cortico-thalamocortical transfer of visual information. Nonetheless, knowledge of the nature of the pulvinar inputs to the cortex remains elusive. We investigated the impact of silencing the pulvinar on the contrast response function of neurons in 2 distinct hierarchical cortical areas in the cat (areas 17 and 21a). Pulvinar inactivation altered the response gain in both areas, but with larger changes observed in area 21a. A theoretical model was proposed, simulating the pulvinar contribution to cortical contrast responses by modifying the excitation-inhibition balanced state of neurons across the cortical hierarchy. Our experimental and theoretical data showed that the pulvinar exerts a greater modulatory influence on neuronal activity in area 21a than in the primary visual cortex, indicating that the pulvinar impact on cortical visual neurons varies along the cortical hierarchy.
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