Thalamus

All information from the environment or inner world of the body - from the spinal cord, brain stem and also from the cerebellum - reaches the nuclei of the thalamus via ascending orbital systems. There they are collected, interconnected and processed before they are fed via projection paths to the cerebral cortex where they are processed into conscious sensations.

Durch das limbische System, das den Thalamus wie ein Saum umgibt, erhalten die Informationen noch ihre emotionalen Komponenten. Der Thalamus wird auch das Tor zum Bewusstsein genannt.