James W. Phillips

The paper shows that different components of motor commands are distributed across two types of cortical projection neurons in mice.

This study shows that motor cortex modulates somatosensory processing through a cortico-thalamo-cortical pathway, with thalamic circuits playing a key role in tactile suppression.

The paper constructs a transcriptomic atlas of the thalamus, revealing a single spectrum of neuronal identities that serve as molecularly-defined filters for cortical modalities.