Section: New Results

The thalamus is more than a relay

Many recent results in neuroscience indicate that the role of the thalamus in the brain is certainly more important than it used to be considered, particularly concerning its relation with the cortex. Our modeling and bibliographic studies were carried out in the Keops project (cf. §  8.2 ) with our chilean neuroscientist colleagues studying non standard ganglion cells in the retina. Particularly, the PhD work by Carlos Carvajal [1] led us to propose a biologically-founded algorithm for the interplay between the modulatory and driving connections between the thalamus and the cortex, with the strong constraint of proposing a system working on a real visual flow.