Christina Mo

Perception is multimodal—we recognize objects in the world by combining touch, sight, sound, smell, and taste. Primary sensory cortical areas (S1, V1, A1, …) respond to other modalities. Could a primary area bind together different modalities, like an association cortex? 🧵

Are we too cortex exclusive? 🧠 We found that perceptual decisions depend on a cortical pathway through thalamus (transthalamic), even though corticocortical projections are intact. Transthalamic pathways thus play a major but underappreciated role in perception. 1/5