Anmerkungen:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:
CELL TYPES IN THE THALAMUS AND CORTEX -- INTRINSIC MEMBRANE PROPERTIES -- SYNAPTIC PROPERTIES -- GLUTAMATERGIC DRIVERS AND MODULATORS -- FIRST AND HIGHER ORDER THALAMIC RELAYS -- THALAMIC CIRCUITRY -- BRIEF OVERVIEW OF CORTICAL ORGANIZATION -- CLASSIFICATION OF THALAMOCORTICAL AND CORTICOTHALAMIC MOTIFS -- SPIKE TIMING AND THALAMOCORTICAL INTERACTIONS -- PARALLEL PROCESSING OF SENSORY SIGNALS TO CORTEX -- THALAMOCORTICAL SUBSTRATES OF ATTENTION -- CORTICOTHALAMIC CIRCUITS LINKING SENSATION AND ACTION.
"The purpose of this book is to offer a somewhat different view from standard (read: textbook) accounts of the relationships between the thalamus and cortex and what this all means for cortical functioning. Some of these ideas have been evolving for some time (Halassa and Sherman, 2019;Usrey and Sherman, 2019;Usrey and Alitto, 2015;Briggs and Usrey, 2014;Usrey, 2002;Sherman, 2016;Sherman and Guillery, 2013;Sherman and Guillery, 2006). This is not meant as a thorough documentation of all things thalamic and cortical, but rather a selective interpretation of certain features of thalamus and cortex that lead to some new ideas and hypotheses. Some of these are quite speculative, and we shall attempt to emphasize differences in our version between generally accepted facts and speculation. Our goal is not so much to get the reader to accept our hypotheses and speculations, but rather to encourage skepticism and rethinking of standard textbook accounts of the subject"--