Vestibular Signals in Primate Thalamus: Properties and Origins

Hui, Meng; May, Paul J.; Dickman, J. David; Angelaki, Dora E.

doi:10.1523/jneurosci.3931-07.2007

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“…We recorded from the anterior thalamus of two naïve male rhesus macaques (V and L, both 5 years old, pair-housed with normal light/dark cycle) implanted with a circular delrin ring to immobilize the head, scleral search coils to measure eye movements, and a delrin platform for neural recordings 13,14 . Neuronal recordings in the Anterior Thalamus were performed in animal V prior to this study.…”

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Gravity orientation tuning in macaque anterior thalamus

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Gravity may provide a ubiquitous allocentric reference to the brain’s spatial orientation circuits. Here we describe neurons in the macaque anterior thalamus tuned to pitch and roll orientation relative to gravity, independent of visual landmarks. We show that individual cells exhibit two-dimensional tuning curves, with peak firing rates at a preferred vertical orientation. These results identify a thalamic pathway for gravity cues to influence perception, action and spatial cognition.

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Gravity orientation tuning in macaque anterior thalamus

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“…The ventral posterior lateral nucleus (VPL) and the nucleus ventralis intermedius (Vim, a transitional zone between the VPL and the ventrolateral thalamic nuclei, see Shiroyama et al, 1999) receive vestibular inputs (Blum et al, 1979b;Blum and Gilman, 1979;Büttner and Henn, 1976;Deecke et al, 1977;Kotchabhakdi et al, 1980;Lang et al, 1979;Magnin and Fuchs, 1977;McCrea, 2008a, 2008b;Matsuo et al, 1994Matsuo et al, , 1995Matsuo et al, , 1999Meng et al, 2007;Nagata, 1986;Sans et al, 1970;Shiroyama et al, 1999) (Fig. 1A-B).…”

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“…In the same decade, vestibulothalamic pathways have been identified by various anatomical methods: degeneration techniques after electrolytic lesions of the vestibular nuclei (Raymond et al, 1974), injection of retrograde tracers into thalamic nuclei, and injection of anterograde tracers into the vestibular nuclei (Condé and Condé, 1978;Lang et al, 1979;Magnin and Kennedy, 1979). These pioneering studies, as well as more recent research (see Fukushima, 1997;Meng et al, 2007;Shiroyama et al, 1999, for reviews), have established the main characteristics of the vestibulothalamic pathways, which we summarize below.…”

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“…Anterograde tracing methods in the rat suggest that vestibular inputs originate from the MVN and SVN (Matesz et al, 2002). VPM neurons have been shown to respond to rotational and translational vestibular stimulation (Matsuo et al, 1994(Matsuo et al, , 1995(Matsuo et al, , 1999Meng et al, 2007) as well as to electrical stimulation of the vestibular nerve (Blum et al, 1979b;Blum and Gilman, 1979;Deecke et al, 1977;Matsuo et al, 1994Matsuo et al, , 1999Meng et al, 2001). However, Marlinski and McCrea (2008a), for example, found no or only few pure vestibular-sensitive neurons in the VPM of the squirrel monkey.…”

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“…Such differences could be related aPul, anterior pulvinar nucleus; AV, anteroventral nucleus; CL, centrolateral nucleus; CM, central medial nucleus; FR, formatio reticularis; LD, lateral dorsal nucleus; LG, lateral geniculate body; MD, mediodorsal nucleus (nucleus medialis dorsalis); P, posterior nucleus; MG, medial geniculate body; NR, nucleus ruber; Pd, nucleus peripeduncularis; PF, parafascicular nucleus; PG, perigeniculate nucleus; PuL, pulvinar lateralis; PuO, pulvinar oralis; RT, reticular thalamic nucleus; ST, subthalamic nucleus; VA, ventroanterior nucleus; VL, ventrolateral nucleus; VPI, ventral posterior inferior nucleus; VPL, ventral posterior lateral nucleus; VPM, ventral posterior medial nucleus; VPP, nucleus ventroposterior, pars posterior; ZI, zona incerta. Adapted from Marlinski and McCrea (2008) for part A, and from Meng et al (2007) for part B. Gain and phase of the responses of thalamic neurons to yaw rotations (C) and translations (D).…”

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The thalamocortical vestibular system in animals and humans

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The vestibular system provides the brain with sensory signals about three-dimensional head rotations and translations. These signals are important for postural and oculomotor control, as well as for spatial and bodily perception and cognition, and they are subtended by pathways running from the vestibular nuclei to the thalamus, cerebellum and the "vestibular cortex."The present review summarizes current knowledge on the anatomy of the thalamocortical vestibular system and discusses data from electrophysiology and neuroanatomy in animals by comparing them with data from neuroimagery and neurology in humans. Multiple thalamic nuclei are involved in vestibular processing, including the ventroposterior complex, the ventroanterior-ventrolateral complex, the intralaminar nuclei and the posterior nuclear group 2 0 1 1 ) 1 1 9 -1 4 6 Abbreviations: 3aHv, 3a-hand-vestibular area; 3aNv, 3a-neck-vestibular area; ASS, anterior suprasylvian cortex; DVN, descending vestibular nucleus; FEF, frontal eye fields; Ig, insula granularis; IL, intralaminar nuclei; LD, lateral dorsal nucleus; LGN, lateral geniculate nucleus; LP, lateral posterior nucleus; LVN, lateral vestibular nucleus; MGmc, medial geniculate nucleus, pars magnocellularis; MGN, medial geniculate nucleus; MIP, medial intraparietal area; MST, medial superior temporal area; MT, middle temporal area; MVN, medial vestibular nucleus; PIVC, parieto-insular vestibular cortex; PO, posterior group of the thalamus; Reipt, area retroinsularis pars parietalis; Ri, area retroinsularis; SGN, suprageniculate nucleus; SVN, superior vestibular nucleus; TPJ, temporo-parietal junction; VA, ventroanterior thalamic nucleus; Vim, nucleus ventralis intermedius; VIP R A I N R E S E A R C H R E V I E W S 6 7 (

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a b s t r a c tWhat is the main purpose of visual motion processing? One very important aspect of motion processing is definitively the generation of smooth pursuit eye movements. These eye movements avoid motion blur of moving objects which would obstruct the analysis of the objects' visual details. However, these eye movements can only be executed if there is a moving target. So there is a very close and inseparable relationship between smooth pursuit and motion processing. The hub for visual motion processing is situated in the middle temporal (MT) and medial superior temporal (MST) area. Despite the undoubted importance of these areas for the generation of smooth pursuit or goal-directed behavior in general, it is important to keep in mind that motion processing in addition serves perceptual purposes such as object recognition, structure-from-motion detection, scene segmentation, self-motion estimation and depth perception. This review focuses at the beginning on pursuit-related activity recorded from MT and MST, subsequently extends the view to goal-directed hand movements, and finally addresses the possible contributions of these areas to motion perception.

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Vestibular Signals in Primate Thalamus: Properties and Origins

Cited by 131 publications

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Gravity orientation tuning in macaque anterior thalamus

Gravity orientation tuning in macaque anterior thalamus

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