Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Subcortical circuits mediate communication between primary sensory cortical areas in mice

  • Michael Lohse,
  • Johannes C. Dahmen,
  • Victoria M. Bajo,
  • Andrew J. King

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24200-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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In the primary auditory cortex, visual or tactile stimuli can modulate acoustically-driven activity. Here, the authors show that circuits linking the primary somatosensory cortex to both the auditory midbrain and thalamus allow tactile inputs to modulate auditory thalamocortical processing.