pulvinar nucleus

The pulvinar nuclei of the thalamus play a major role in attention, and filter out unnecessary information.

They propose a dynamic routing scheme in which an area called the pulvinar nucleus acts as a consciousness command post.

The pulvinar nuclei (in the thalamus) modulates physical saliency in attentional selection.

Conversely, Bender and Butter (1987) found that during testing on monkeys, no involvement of the pulvinar nucleus was identified during visual search tasks.

The pulvinar nuclei (nuclei pulvinaris) are a collection of nuclei located in the pulvinar thalamus.

The pulvinar nuclei in the thalamus function as the gatekeeper, deciding which information should be inhibited, and which should be sent to further cortical areas.

The thalamogeniculate artery is a branch of the posterior cerebral artery supplying medial and lateral geniculate nucleus and the pulvinar nuclei of the thalamus.

The ability to directly attend to a particular stimuli during visual search experiments has been linked to the pulvinar nucleus (located in the midbrain) while inhibiting attention to unattended stimuli.

Nearby regions such as the pulvinar nucleus were not stimulated for this task, indicating millimeter resolution for the spatial extent of the BOLD response, at least in thalamic nuclei.

The Lateral geniculate and pulvinar nuclei project to and terminate in V1, and carry motor information from the brain stem as well as other sensory input from the optic tract.

The other major retino-cortical visual pathway is the tectopulvinar pathway, routing primarily through the superior colliculus and thalamic pulvinar nucleus onto posterior parietal cortex and visual area MT.

Evidence from several studies supports the idea that the Pulvinar nuclei and superior colliculus receive descending projections from CT fibers while TC fibers extending from the LGN carry visual information to the various areas of the visual cortex near the calcarine fissure.