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Body Topography in the Second Somatic Sensory Area

Monkey S II Somatotopy

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Abstract

The second somatic sensory area (S II) was originally described on the basis of evoked potential mapping studies (1, 64, 65). This type of physiological study and the more detailed microelectrode mapping studies that followed have provided important data concerning the functional organization of this region of the cerebral cortex. Unfortunately these physiological data have not been correlated with connectional or cytoarchitectonic data. The need for such correlative information is suggested by studies such as that of Carreras and Anderson (7), whose division of the anterior ectosylvian gyrus in the cat into functional areas on the basis of the vascular pattern of the cortex is still widely quoted.

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Abbreviations

AI:

First auditory field

CG:

Central gray matter

CL:

Central lateral nucleus, claustrum (Fig. 2 only)

CM:

Centre median nucleus

CS:

Central sulcus

H:

Habenular complex

Id:

Dysgranular insular field

Ig:

Granular insular field

IPS:

Intraparietal sulcus

LD:

Lateral dorsal nucleus

LG:

Lateral geniculate nucleus

LP:

Lateral posterior nucleus

LS:

Lateral sulcus

MD:

Medial dorsal nucleus

MG:

Medial geniculate nucleus

Pa:

Postauditory field

PCS:

Postcentral sulcus

Pf:

Parafascicular nucleus

Pi:

Parainsular auditory field

Pla:

Pla Anterior nucleus of pulvinar

Pli:

Inferior nucleus of pulvinar

Po:

Posterior nucleus

R:

Reticular nucleus

Ri:

Retroinsular area

RL:

Rostrolateral auditory field

SG:

Suprageniculate nucleus

STS:

Superior temporal sulcus

S I:

First somatic sensory area

S II:

Second somatic sensory area

T2:

Second temporal field

T3:

Third temporal field

VLc:

Ventral lateral nucleus, caudal division

VLps:

Ventral lateral nucleus, pars postrema

VMb:

Basal ventromedial nucleus

VPI:

Ventral posteroinferior nucleus

VPLc:

Ventral posterolateral nucleus, caudal division

VPLo:

Ventral posterolateral nucleus, oral division

VPM:

Ventral posteromedial nucleus

WM:

White matter

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Friedman, D.P. (1981). Body Topography in the Second Somatic Sensory Area. In: Woolsey, C.N. (eds) Cortical Sensory Organization. Cortical Sensory Organization, vol 1. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5811-7_5

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