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thalamus and cognition

Didier A. Depireux didier at Glue.umd.edu
Fri May 21 09:36:47 EST 1999


Heiko Tietze () wrote:

: Cognition is done at mor cortical areas - the selection what
: information to be cognated (is it english) is done in the thalamic

This might degenerate into semantics, like most other discussion of
consciousness, but how would you know where cognition is? How would you
know it is even localizable anywhere? The massive backprojections (that are
10 times more numerous for auditory cortex) to Thalamus from Cortex shows
you that it's not just a question of information being sent to cortex for
processing there and nothing else.

						Didier

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