LEADER 04393oam 2200685 450 001 9910137529403321 005 20230807205909.0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000569682 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001666304 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16454544 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001666304 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14999925 035 $a(PQKB)11352920 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00056539 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/43481 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000569682 100 $a20160829h2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe cognitive thalamus$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Yuri B. Saalmann and Sabine Kastner 210 $cFrontiers Media SA$d2015 210 1$aLausanne, Switzerland :$cFrontiers Media SA,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (125 pages) $cillustrations; digital, PDF file(s) 225 0 $aFrontiers Research Topics,$x1664-8714 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 300 $aPublished in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. 311 $a2-88919-541-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 $aCognitive processing is commonly conceptualized as being restricted to the cerebral cortex. Accordingly, electrophysiology, neuroimaging and lesion studies involving human and animal subjects have almost exclusively focused on defining roles for cerebral cortical areas in cognition. Roles for the thalamus in cognition have been largely ignored despite the fact that the extensive connectivity between the thalamus and cerebral cortex gives rise to a closely coupled thalamo-cortical system. However, in recent years, growing interest in the thalamus as much more than a passive sensory structure, as well as methodological advances such as high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging of the thalamus and improved electrode targeting to subregions of thalamic nuclei using electrical stimulation and diffusion tensor imaging, have fostered research into thalamic contributions to cognition. Evidence suggests that behavioral context modulates processing in primary sensory, or first-order, thalamic nuclei (for example, the lateral geniculate and ventral posterior nuclei), allowing attentional filtering of incoming sensory information at an early stage of brain processing. Behavioral context appears to more strongly influence higher-order thalamic nuclei (for example, the pulvinar and mediodorsal nucleus), which receive major input from the cortex rather than the sensory periphery. Such higher-order thalamic nuclei have been shown to regulate information transmission in frontal and higher-order sensory cortex according to cognitive demands. This Research Topic aims to bring together neuroscientists who study different parts of the thalamus, particularly thalamic nuclei other than the primary sensory relays, and highlight the thalamic contributions to attention, memory, reward processing, decision-making, and language. By doing so, an emphasis is also placed on neural mechanisms common to many, if not all, of these cognitive operations, such as thalamo-cortical interactions and modulatory influences from sources in the brainstem and basal ganglia. The overall view that emerges is that the thalamus is a vital node in brain networks supporting cognition. 606 $aNeuroscience 606 $aNeuroscience$2HILCC 606 $aHuman Anatomy & Physiology$2HILCC 606 $aHealth & Biological Sciences$2HILCC 610 $aneural synchrony 610 $acognitive control 610 $aintralaminar thalamus 610 $amediodorsal thalamus 610 $aMemory 610 $aPulvinar 610 $athalamocortical interactions 610 $aoscillations 610 $aanterior thalamus 610 $aPrefrontal Cortex 615 0$aNeuroscience. 615 7$aNeuroscience 615 7$aHuman Anatomy & Physiology 615 7$aHealth & Biological Sciences 700 $aSabine Kastner$4auth$01376283 702 $aKastner$b Sabine 702 $aSaalmann$b Yuri B. 801 0$bPQKB 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910137529403321 996 $aThe cognitive thalamus$93411840 997 $aUNINA