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Annual Review of Vision Science

Volume 4, 2018

Thalamocortical Circuits and Functional Architecture

Abstract

The thalamocortical pathway is the main route of communication between the eye and the cerebral cortex. During embryonic development, thalamocortical afferents travel to L4 and are sorted by receptive field position, eye of origin, and contrast polarity (i.e., preference for light or dark stimuli). In primates and carnivores, this sorting involves numerous afferents, most of which sample a limited region of the binocular field. Devoting abundant thalamocortical resources to process a limited visual field has a clear advantage: It allows many stimulus combinations to be sampled at each spatial location. Moreover, the sampling efficiency can be further enhanced by organizing the afferents in a cortical grid for eye input and contrast polarity. We argue that thalamocortical interactions within this eye–polarity grid can be used to represent multiple stimulus combinations found in nature and to build an accurate cortical map for multidimensional stimulus space.

Keyword(s): cortical map, receptive field, thalamocortical, thalamus, visual cortex, visual development
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Thalamocortical Circuits and Functional Architecture
Annual Review of Vision Science 4, 263 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-vision-091517-034122
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