Thalamus articles from across Nature Portfolio

The visual network in mice develops in a modular manner with initial establishment of parallel modules followed by their concatenation.

Genetic manipulation of skin peripheral sensory neurons in mice shows that cortical neuron responses to touch reflect subcortical mixing of signals from both rapidly adapting and slowly adapting low-threshold mechanoreceptors.

In the primary auditory cortex, visual or tactile stimuli can modulate acoustically-driven activity. Here, the authors show that circuits linking the primary somatosensory cortex to both the auditory midbrain and thalamus allow tactile inputs to modulate auditory thalamocortical processing.

The neocortex and the thalamus are connected by looping circuits, enabling cortical function. In this Review, Gordon Shepherd and Naoki Yamawaki examine the patterns of connectivity between the major types of cortical and thalamic neurons and how these cortico-thalamo-cortical loops relate to corticocortical circuits.