The Pulvinar Thalamic Nucleus of Non-Human Primates: Architectonic and Functional Subdivisions

• Main Authors: Gattass, Ricardo (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Soares, Juliana G.M (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Lima, Bruss (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology, 225
• Subjects: Neurosciences.; Evolutionary biology.; Evolutionary Biology.

This book discusses the hypothesis that the primate pulvinar contains an original scaffold which is derived from cytoarchitectural markers and specific protein distributions. Thereafter, along primate evolution, different selective pressures acted in order to shape and fine-tune the connectivity of...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: introduction
• Chapter 2: Cytoarchitecture and myeloarchitecture of the pulvinar
• Chapter 3: Chemoarchitecture of the pulvinar
• Chapter 4: Visual map representations in the primate pulvinar
• Chapter 5: Connectivity of the pulvinar
• Chapter 6: Reestablishing the chemoarchitectural borders based on electrophysiological and connectivity data
• Chapter 7: Visual topography of the pulvinar projection zones
• Chapter 8: Comparative pulvinar organization across different primate species
• Chapter 9: Response properties of pulvinar neurons studied with single unit electrophysiological recordings
• Chapter 10: Modulation of pulvinar neuronal activity by arousal
• Chapter 11: Gaba inactivation of the pulvinar
• Chapter 12: The role of the pulvinar in spatial visual attention.