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Somatosensory Thalamus of the Rat

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Abstract

Each sensory field of neocortex (somatic, visual, and auditory) is the target of multiple thalamic pathways (Macchi, 1983). The barrel field of rodent cortex (Woolsey and Van der Loos, 1970; C. Welker and Woolsey, 1974) provides a particularly useful model for investigating how multiple thalamic inputs are integrated; the various ascending sensory pathways are segregated in the thalamus and terminate in separate cortical sites. This chapter concerns the thalamic nuclei that project to the barrel cortex—their classification, their afferent and efferent connections, and their functional properties.

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Diamond, M.E. (1995). Somatosensory Thalamus of the Rat. In: Jones, E.G., Diamond, I.T. (eds) The Barrel Cortex of Rodents. Cerebral Cortex, vol 11. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9616-2_4

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