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Brain circuitry for selecting among sensations

April 23, 2015 by

Neuroscientists show how cells in the brain's cortex can either stifle or enhance sensory information incoming from the thalamus, thereby allowing it to focus on just some of the many sensory inputs it might choose to consider.

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