A Closer Look at Corticothalamic "Loops"

• Published in: Frontiers in neural circuits Vol. 15; p. 632668
• Main Author: Rockland, Kathleen S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Research Foundation 02.02.2021; Frontiers Media S.A
• Subjects: Cerebral Cortex; Cognitive ability; Cortex (somatosensory); cortical cell types; corticogeniculate; Dendrites; Feedback; Gene expression; Geniculate Bodies; heterogeneity; layer 6; Neurons; Neuroscience; reciprocity; Rodents; Thalamus; Topography; Visual cortex; Visual stimuli; Constantinople; cortical cell types; layer 6; corticogeniculate; heterogeneity; reciprocity

In this Opinion, I briefly bring together several anatomical features of CT connections, relevant to an emerging view of cognitive-sensory processes; namely, (1) cell type diversity, which may only partly be related to segregated parallel processing; (2) reciprocity, which may not be monosynaptic ce...