Brain ‘relay’ also key to holding thoughts in mind

Long assumed to be a mere “relay,” an often-overlooked egg-like structure in the middle of the brain also turns out to play a pivotal role in tuning-up thinking circuity. A trio of studies in mice funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are revealing that the thalamus sustains the ability to distinguish categories and hold thoughts in mind.

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imagine that, an information-processing structure that has the ability to retain information and process it

SCIENCE said:

imagine that, an information-processing structure that has the ability to retain information and process it

and develop opinions and design experiments all by itself?

> the thalamus has many connections with other parts of the brain that have yet to be explored

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roughbarked said:

SCIENCE said:

imagine that, an information-processing structure that has the ability to retain information and process it

and develop opinions and design experiments all by itself?

And become aware that it is within a universe that it cannot get out of.