- somatosensory from body (via medial lemniscus and spinothalamic)

VPL

- communications with prefrontal cortex; memory loss results if destroyed

Medial Dorsal

- cerebellum (dentate nucleus) and basal ganglia --> motor cortex

Ventral Lateral

- trigeminothalamic and taste pathways to somatosensory cortex

VPM

- retina --> occipital lobe

lateral geniculate

- basal ganglia --> prefrontal, premotor, and orbital cortices

ventral anterior

- mamillothalamic tract --> cingulate gyrus (part of Papez circuit)

anterior

- integration of visual, auditory, and somesthetic input

pulvinar

- (auditory info) brachium of inferior colliculus --> primary auditory cortex

medial geniculate

- dentate nucleus and basal ganglia --> supplementary motor cortex

ventral lateral