Topography, architecture, and connections of somatosensory cortex in opossums: Evidence for five somatosensory areas

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 366, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 109-133

  Beck, Pamela D ^a   Pospichal, Marcie W ^a   Kaas, Jon H ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

auditory cortex; brain evolution; marsupial; motor cortex; visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; MICROELECTRODE; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOPOGRAPHY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPOSSUMS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0030023557     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19960226)366:1<109::AID-CNE8>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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