Abstract
Information about the basal ganglia has accumulated at a prodigious pace over the past decade, necessitating major revisions in our concepts of the structural and functional organization of these nuclei. From earlier data it had appeared that the basal ganglia served primarily to integrate diverse inputs from the entire cerebral cortex and to funnel these influences, via the ventrolateral thalamus, to the motor cortex (Allen & Tsukahara 1974, Evarts & Thach 1969, Kemp & Powell 1971). In particular, the basal
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NeuroscienceBasal gangliaFunctional organizationNerve netCortex (anatomy)BiologyCerebral cortexIndirect pathway of movementPsychologyCentral nervous system
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Garrett E. Alexander,
Mahlon R. DeLong,
P L Strick
(1986).
Parallel Organization of Functionally Segregated Circuits Linking Basal Ganglia and Cortex.
Annual Review of Neuroscience
, 9
(1)
, 357-381.
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ne.09.030186.002041
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- 10.1146/annurev.ne.09.030186.002041