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The thalamocortical projection systems in Primate : an anatomical support for multisensory and sensorimotor interplay

Cappe, Céline ; Morel, Anne ; Barone, Pascal ; Rouiller, Eric M.

In: Cerebral Cortex, 2009, vol. 19, no. 9, p. 2025-2037

Multisensory and sensorimotor integrations are usually considered to occur in superior colliculus and cerebral cortex, but few studies proposed the thalamus as being involved in these integrative processes. We investigated whether the organization of the thalamocortical (TC) systems for different modalities partly overlap, representing an anatomical support for multisensory and sensorimotor...

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Thalamocortical and the dual pattern of corticothalamic projections of the posterior parietal cortex in macaque monkeys

Cappe, Céline ; Morel, Anne ; Rouiller, Eric M.

In: Neuroscience, 2007, vol. 146, no. 3, p. 1371-1387

The corticothalamic projection includes a main, modulatory projection from cortical layer VI terminating with small endings whereas a less numerous, driving projection from layer V forms giant endings. Such dual pattern of corticothalamic projections is well established in rodents and cats for many cortical areas. In non-human primates (monkeys), it has been reported for the primary sensory...