A Role for the Claustrum in Salience Processing?
The claustrum (CLA) is a subcortical structure, present only in mammals, whose function remains uncertain.Previously, using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) in awake head-fixed rats, we found evidence that the CLA is part of the rodent homolog of the default mode network (DMN; Smith et al., 2017).This network emerged as