Visual attention: the thalamus at the centre?
New work shows that spatial attention modulates visual responses of single neurons in monkey thalamus, providing empirical support for a long-standing theoretical prediction that specific thalamic nuclei play a key role in controlling the spotlight of visual attention.
Rees
Geraint
G
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK. g.rees@fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk
D000818:Animals; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D000882:Haplorhini; D006801:Humans; D008252:Macaca fascicularis; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D013788:Thalamus / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D014794:Visual Fields; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*