Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 7-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Magnification, receptive-field area, and "hypercolumn" size in areas 3b and 1 of somatosensory cortex in owl monkeys

Magnification, receptive-field area, and "hypercolumn" size in areas 3b and 1 of somatosensory... JON H. Departments of Psychology Anatomy, Verbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37240; the Coleman Laboratory, Departments of Otolaryngology Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143 that the skin surface is represented systematSI 1. Several of the two complete ically within at least two representations SII of mammals separate representations of the contralateral body surface in cortical areas 3b 1 of so- (see Refs. 12,25 for review). In monkeys matosensory in owl monkeys were the higher primates it has also been recognized that the postcentral parietal representation, quantitatively studied. SI, includes cytoarchitectonic areas 3a, 3b, 2. Area1 magnification factors for different body regions in the two representations were 1, 2 of Brodmann (2) (later Vogt, Ref. 30). obtained. The glabrous h foot regions In a recent series of mapping experiments, were found to occupy nearly 100 times more we have shown that each of cortical areas 3b cortical tissue per unit body-surface area 1 contains a complete separate cutaneous representhan the trunk or upper arm. tation of the contralateral body surface in 3. In the representations of the h digits, inverse magnification was linearly related to owl monkeys (12)) macaque monkeys ( 15,26), squirrel monkeys (16), Cebus monkeys from http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Neurophysiology The American Physiological Society

Magnification, receptive-field area, and "hypercolumn" size in areas 3b and 1 of somatosensory cortex in owl monkeys

Download PDF
17 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/the-american-physiological-society/magnification-receptive-field-area-and-hypercolumn-size-in-areas-3b-2yHddLixE4

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
The American Physiological Society
Copyright
Copyright © 1980 the American Physiological Society
ISSN
0022-3077
eISSN
1522-1598
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

JON H. Departments of Psychology Anatomy, Verbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37240; the Coleman Laboratory, Departments of Otolaryngology Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143 that the skin surface is represented systematSI 1. Several of the two complete ically within at least two representations SII of mammals separate representations of the contralateral body surface in cortical areas 3b 1 of so- (see Refs. 12,25 for review). In monkeys matosensory in owl monkeys were the higher primates it has also been recognized that the postcentral parietal representation, quantitatively studied. SI, includes cytoarchitectonic areas 3a, 3b, 2. Area1 magnification factors for different body regions in the two representations were 1, 2 of Brodmann (2) (later Vogt, Ref. 30). obtained. The glabrous h foot regions In a recent series of mapping experiments, were found to occupy nearly 100 times more we have shown that each of cortical areas 3b cortical tissue per unit body-surface area 1 contains a complete separate cutaneous representhan the trunk or upper arm. tation of the contralateral body surface in 3. In the representations of the h digits, inverse magnification was linearly related to owl monkeys (12)) macaque monkeys ( 15,26), squirrel monkeys (16), Cebus monkeys from

Journal

Journal of Neurophysiology – The American Physiological Society

Published: Aug 1, 1980

There are no references for this article.