Functional Connections of Cortical Areas: A New View from the Thalamus

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S. Murray Sherman (Maurice Goldblatt Professor and Chairman, The University of Chicago) R. W. Guillery (MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit)

Functional Connections of Cortical Areas

A New View from the Thalamus

S. Murray Sherman (Maurice Goldblatt Professor and Chairman, The University of Chicago), R. W. Guillery (MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit)

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English

MIT Press
09 August 2013

Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Neurosciences; Human biology

Series: The MIT Press

Two leading authorities on thalamocortical connections consider how the neural circuits of the brain relate to our actions and perceptions.

In this book, two leading authorities on the thalamus and its relationship to cortex build on their earlier findings to arrive at new ways of thinking about how the brain relates to the world, to cognition, and behavior. Based on foundations established earlier in their book Exploring the Thalamus and Its Role in Cortical Function, the authors consider the implications of these ground rules for thalamic inputs, thalamocortical connections, and cortical outputs.

The authors argue that functional and structural analyses of pathways connecting thalamus and cortex point beyond these to lower centers and through them to the body and the world. Each cortical area depends on the messages linking it to body and world. These messages relate to the way we act and think; each cortical area receives thalamic inputs and has outputs to motor centers. Sherman and Guillery go on to discuss such topics as the role of branching axons that carry motor instructions as well as copies of these motor instructions for relay to cortex under the control of the thalamic gate. This gate allows the thalamus to control the passage of information on the basis of which cortex relates to the rest of the nervous system.

By: S. Murray Sherman (Maurice Goldblatt Professor and Chairman The University of Chicago), R. W. Guillery (MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 640g
ISBN: 9780262019309
ISBN 10: 0262019302
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 09 August 2013
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

S. Murray Sherman is Maurice Goldblatt Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Chicago. R. W. Guillery is affiliated with the MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit in Oxford, previously taught in the United States (University of Wisconsin School of Medicine), the United Kingdom (University of Oxford), and Turkey, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Reviews for Functional Connections of Cortical Areas: A New View from the Thalamus

Functional Connections of Cortical Areas is an outstanding piece of work. The authors present compelling evidence that the big picture may be vastly different from how we usually see it and suggest a conceptual path that is both elegant and rich in its implications —Visual Neroscience