Emerging views of corticothalamic function

Cortex Is Driven by Weak but Synchronously Active Thalamocortical Synapses

2006 • 730 citations

Tonic and burst firing: dual modes of thalamocortical relay

2001 • 729 citations

Attention modulates responses in the human lateral geniculate nucleus

2002 • 718 citations

Exploring the Thalamus and Its Role in Cortical Function

2005 • 620 citations

The impact of 'bursting' thalamic impulses at a neocortical synapse

2001 • 494 citations

Sleep, epilepsy and thalamic reticular inhibitory neurons

2005 • 437 citations

Multiparametric corticofugal modulation and plasticity in the auditory system

2003 • 387 citations

Internal Dynamics Determine the Cortical Response to Thalamic Stimulation

2005 • 381 citations

Are corticothalamic ‘up’ states fragments of wakefulness?

2007 • 335 citations

Corticothalamic Inputs Control the Pattern of Activity Generated in Thalamocortical Networks

2000 • 309 citations

Corticofugal feedback influences the generation of length tuning in the visual pathway

1987 • 260 citations

Attentional Modulation of Thalamic Reticular Neurons

2006 • 246 citations

Thalamic bursting in rats during different awake behavioral states

2001 • 242 citations

The Suppressive Field of Neurons in Lateral Geniculate Nucleus

2005 • 231 citations

Stimulus dependence of two-state fluctuations of membrane potential in cat visual cortex

2000 • 227 citations

Synaptic background activity controls spike transfer from thalamus to cortex

2005 • 202 citations

State Changes Rapidly Modulate Cortical Neuronal Responsiveness

2007 • 199 citations

Cortically-induced coherence of a thalamic-generated oscillation

1999 • 186 citations

Cortical Feedback Controls the Frequency and Synchrony of Oscillations in the Visual Thalamus

2000 • 180 citations

Effect of Subthreshold Up and Down States on the Whisker-Evoked Response in Somatosensory Cortex

2004 • 171 citations

Functional Topography of Corticothalamic Feedback Enhances Thalamic Spatial Response Tuning in the Somatosensory Whisker/Barrel System

2004 • 170 citations

Short-Term Depression in Thalamocortical Synapses of Cat Primary Visual Cortex

2005 • 166 citations

Cortically induced thalamic plasticity in the primate somatosensory system

1998 • 165 citations

Attention-dependent Suppression of Metabolic Activity in the Early Stages of the Macaque Visual System

2000 • 159 citations

Origin and Dynamics of Extraclassical Suppression in the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus of the Macaque Monkey

2008 • 155 citations

Thalamocortical Up States: Differential Effects of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Cortical Inputs on Persistent Activity

2007 • 152 citations

Striate cortex increases contrast gain of macaque LGN neurons

2000 • 149 citations

Functional alignment of feedback effects from visual cortex to thalamus

2006 • 144 citations

Looking back: corticothalamic feedback and early visual processing

2006 • 133 citations

Enhancement of Visual Responsiveness by Spontaneous Local Network Activity In Vivo

2007 • 133 citations

Corticothalamic feedback enhances stimulus response precision in the visual system

2007 • 119 citations

Three groups of cortico‐geniculate neurons and their distribution in binocular and monocular segments of cat striate cortex

1980 • 118 citations

Spatial summation in lateral geniculate nucleus and visual cortex

2000 • 108 citations

Distinct Properties of Stimulus-Evoked Bursts in the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus

2005 • 102 citations

Corticogeniculate neurons, corticotectal neurons, and suspected interneurons in visual cortex of awake rabbits: receptive-field properties, axonal properties, and effects of EEG arousal

1987 • 94 citations

A Fast, Reciprocal Pathway between the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus and Visual Cortex in the Macaque Monkey

2007 • 94 citations

Corticothalamic Inhibition in the Thalamic Reticular Nucleus

2004 • 93 citations

Modelling corticothalamic feedback and the gating of the thalamus by the cerebral cortex

2000 • 89 citations

Feedback from V1 and inhibition from beyond the classical receptive field modulates the responses of neurons in the primate lateral geniculate nucleus

2002 • 88 citations

Visual Control of Burst Priming in the Anesthetized Lateral Geniculate Nucleus

2005 • 79 citations

Completing the Corticofugal Loop: A Visual Role for the Corticogeniculate Type 1 Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor

2002 • 65 citations

Corticofugal Output from the Primary Somatosensory Cortex Selectively Modulates Innocuous and Noxious Inputs in the Rat Spinothalamic System

2006 • 57 citations

Corticothalamic influences on transmission of tactile information in the ventroposterolateral thalamus of the cat: effect of reversible inactivation of somatosensory cortical areas I and II

1994 • 56 citations

Corticofugal feedback improves the timing of retino-geniculate signal transmission

1996 • 56 citations

Cortical Modulation of Spatial and Angular Tuning Maps in the Rat Thalamus

2007 • 55 citations

Changes in Visual Responses in the Feline dLGN: Selective Thalamic Suppression Induced by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of V1

2006 • 55 citations

Brain state and contrast sensitivity in the awake visual thalamus

2006 • 55 citations

Modulation of the Receptive Fields of Midbrain Neurons Elicited by Thalamic Electrical Stimulation through Corticofugal Feedback

2007 • 52 citations

Corticothalamic Feedback for Sound-Specific Plasticity of Auditory Thalamic Neurons Elicited by Tones Paired with Basal Forebrain Stimulation

2008 • 51 citations

Temporal properties of feedforward and feedback pathways between the thalamus and visual cortex in the ferret

2005 • 49 citations

Unitary EPSCs of Corticogeniculate Fibers in the Rat Dorsal Lateral Geniculate Nucleus In Vitro

2003 • 38 citations

Corticofugal influences on thalamic neurons during nociceptive transmission in awake rats

2007 • 31 citations

Differential response dynamics of corticothalamic glutamatergic synapses in the lateral geniculate nucleus and thalamic reticular nucleus

2005 • 28 citations

Selective Elimination of Corticogeniculate Feedback Abolishes the Electroencephalogram Dependence of Primary Visual Cortical Receptive Fields and Reduces Their Spatial Specificity

2003 • 26 citations

Low-Threshold Ca²⁺-Associated Bursts Are Rare Events in the LGN of the Awake Behaving Monkey

2006 • 26 citations

Dynamic properties of corticogeniculate excitatory transmission in the rat dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus in vitro

2004 • 25 citations

Augmentation of corticogeniculate EPSCs in principal cells of the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus of the rat investigated in vitro

2004 • 13 citations