--- abstract: 'The thalamus is the major gate to the cortex and its control over cortical responses is well established. Cortical feedback to the thalamus is, in turn, the anatomically dominant input to relay cells, yet its influence on thalamic processing has been difficult to interpret. For an understanding of complex sensory processing, detailed concepts of the corticothalamic interplay need yet to be established. Drawing on various physiological and anatomical data, we elaborate the novel hypothesis that the visual cortex controls the spatiotemporal structure of cortical receptive fields via feedback to the lateral geniculate nucleus. Furthermore, we present and analyze a model of corticogeniculate loops that implements this control, and exhibit its ability of object segmentation by statistical motion analysis in the visual field.' altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Hillenbrand given: Ulrich honourific: Dr. lineage: '' - family: van Hemmen given: J. Leo honourific: Prof. Dr. lineage: '' date: 2000 date_type: published datestamp: 2002-08-15 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/24/06 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 2406 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/2406/1/Hillenbrand_vanHemmen_00.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'lateral geniculate nucleus, corticothalamic feedback, control loop, object segmentation, motion analysis' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:59 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: 107-118 pubdom: FALSE publication: Visual Neuroscience publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: |- \bibitem[Ahmed et~al., 1994]{Ahmed_etal94} Ahmed, B., Anderson, J.~A., Douglas, R.~J., Martin, K. 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