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. 2002 Dec 29;357(1428):1835–1841. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1166

Recordings, behaviour and models related to corticothalamic feedback.

G L Gerstein 1, K L Kirkland 1, P G Musial 1, S K Talwar 1
PMCID: PMC1693072  PMID: 12626016

Abstract

In this paper, we review recent work on aspects of corticothalamic interactions in the auditory and in the visual systems. There are gross similarities in the arrangements of these systems, but considerable contrasts in the processing computations and in the effects of corticothalamic feedback.

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