Connections of auditory and visual cortex in the prairie vole (microtus ochrogaster): Evidence for multisensory processing in primary sensory areas

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 89-108

  Campi, Katharine L ^a,b   Bales, Karen L ^b   Grunewald, Rebecca ^a   Krubitzer, Leah ^a,b  

^a Center for Neuroscience   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex specializations; Cortical organization; Evolution; V1

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MICROTUS OCHROGASTER; NEOCORTEX; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOLE;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; AUDITORY CORTEX; GENICULATE BODIES; LATERAL THALAMIC NUCLEI; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT-TRACING TECHNIQUES; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VENTRAL THALAMIC NUCLEI; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 72049124041     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp082     Document Type: Article

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