Lakatos Peter, O'Connell Monica N, Barczak Annamaria
Cognitive Neuroscience and Schizophrenia Program, Nathan Kline Institute, Orangeburg, NY 10962, USA; Department of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA.
Cognitive Neuroscience and Schizophrenia Program, Nathan Kline Institute, Orangeburg, NY 10962, USA.
Neuron. 2016 Jan 6;89(1):5-7. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.12.022.
While the function of the pulvinar remains one of the least explored among the thalamic nuclei despite occupying the most thalamic volume in primates, it has long been suspected to play a crucial role in attentive stimulus processing. In this issue of Neuron, Zhou et al. (2016) use simultaneous pulvinar-visual cortex recordings and pulvinar inactivation to provide evidence that the pulvinar is essential for intact stimulus processing, maintenance of neuronal oscillatory dynamics, and mediating the effects of attention.
尽管在灵长类动物中,丘脑枕的体积占丘脑总体积的大部分,但其功能仍是丘脑核团中研究最少的之一。长期以来,人们一直怀疑它在注意力刺激处理中起着关键作用。在本期《神经元》杂志中,周等人(2016年)通过同时记录丘脑枕-视觉皮层活动以及使丘脑枕失活,提供了证据表明丘脑枕对于完整的刺激处理、维持神经元振荡动力学以及介导注意力的影响至关重要。