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SUBMITTER: Purushothaman G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3430824 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Purushothaman Gopathy G Marion Roan R Li Keji K Casagrande Vivien A VA
Nature neuroscience 20120601 6
The primary visual cortex (V1) receives its driving input from the eyes via the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) of the thalamus. The lateral pulvinar nucleus of the thalamus also projects to V1, but this input is not well understood. We manipulated lateral pulvinar neural activity in prosimian primates and assessed the effect on supra-granular layers of V1 that project to higher visual cortex. Reversibly inactivating lateral pulvinar prevented supra-granular V1 neurons from responding to visual ...[more]