ReviewFrontiers in psychology2021
The Role of the Thalamus in Declarative and Procedural Linguistic Memory Processes.
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- When the central integrator disintegrates: A review of the role of the thalamus in cognition and dementia.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Review
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- Characterizing functional modules in the human thalamus: coactivation-based parcellation and systems-level functional decoding.Brain structure & function · 2023Review
- Differences in electroencephalography oscillations between normal aging and mild cognitive impairment during semantic memory retrieval.The European journal of neuroscience · 2023Article
- Thalamic functional connectivity and sensorimotor processing in neurodevelopmental disorders.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Thalamic Aphasia: a Review.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2022Review
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Abstract
Typically, thalamic aphasias appear to be primarily lexical-semantic disorders representing difficulty using stored declarative memories for semantic information to access lexical word forms. Yet, there also is reason to believe that the thalamus might play a role in linguistic procedural memory. For more than two decades, we have known that basal ganglia dysfunction is associated with difficulties in procedural learning, and specific thalamic nuclei are the final waypoint back to the cortex in cortico-basal ganglia-cortical loops. Recent analyses of the role of the thalamus in lexical-semantic processes and of the role of the basal ganglia in linguistic processes suggest that thalamic participation is not simply a matter of declarative vs. procedural memory, but a matter of how the thalamus participates in lexical-semantic processes and in linguistic procedural memory, as well as the interaction of these processes. One role for the thalamus in accessing lexical forms for semantic concepts relates to the stabilization of a very complex semantic-lexical interface with thousands of representations on both sides of the interface. Further, the possibility is discussed that the thalamus, through its participation in basal ganglia loops, participates in two linguistic procedural memory processes: syntactic/grammatical procedures and procedures for finding words to represent semantic concepts, with the latter interacting intricately with declarative memories. These concepts are discussed in detail along with complexities that can be addressed by future research.
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