期刊
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
卷 125, 期 -, 页码 231-243出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.02.043
关键词
Pulvinar; Cortex; Multisensory; Visual; Auditory; Somatosensory; Anatomy; fMRI
资金
- French National Research Agency (ANR) [ANR-16-CE37-0009-01]
- LABEX CORTEX funding from the Universit e de Lyon, within the program Investissements d venir [ANR-11-LABX-0042, ANR-11-IDEX-0007]
This study focuses on the contribution of the pulvinar to multisensory integration, suggesting that the pulvinar combines multiple sources of sensory information to enhance fast responses to the environment and acts as a general regulation hub for adaptive and flexible cognition.
Perception in ambiguous environments relies on the combination of sensory information from various sources. Most associative and primary sensory cortical areas are involved in this multisensory active integration process. As a result, the entire cortex appears as heavily multisensory. In this review, we focus on the contribution of the pulvinar to multisensory integration. This subcortical thalamic nucleus plays a central role in visual detection and selection at a fast time scale, as well as in the regulation of visual processes, at a much slower time scale. However, the pulvinar is also densely connected to cortical areas involved in multisensory integration. In spite of this, little is known about its multisensory properties and its contribution to multisensory perception. Here, we review the anatomical and functional organization of multisensory input to the pulvinar. We describe how visual, auditory, somatosensory, pain, proprioceptive and olfactory projections are differentially organized across the main subdivisions of the pulvinar and we show that topography is central to the organization of this complex nucleus. We propose that the pulvinar combines multiple sources of sensory information to enhance fast responses to the environment, while also playing the role of a general regulation hub for adaptive and flexible cognition.
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