Abstract
Previous physiological studies of the cortical location of responsiveness to somatic stimuli within and along the upper bank of the Sylvian fissure in primates demonstrated a single topographic representation in this part of the cortex (1, 76, 79, 80, 81). This somato-sensory representation was called the second somatic sensory area (S II) since it was discovered subsequent to the first somatic sensory area in most species that contained multiple cortical somatosensory representations. According to some investigators, the effective somatic stimuli for activating evoked potential or single neuron recording sites in SII in animals anesthetized with barbiturates were considerably different from the adequate stimulus parameters for eliciting activity in S I. Receptive fields in primates (1,76-79) and subprimates (4,45,58,60,81) were larger, often bilateral, poorly demarcated and extensively overlapping. Activity in the primate SII was also found to be more susceptible to the level of barbiturate anesthesia (77, 78). As a consequence, the topographic representation of the body in S II was found to be coarser and more difficult to define. In addition, the receptors associated with the sense of position and movement were said not to be represented in S II according to some (76), but not all investigators (41).
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Abbreviations
- AI:
-
First auditory area
- CL:
-
Central lateral nucleus of thalamus
- CM:
-
Centre median nucleus of thalamus
- CN:
-
Caudate nucleus
- Cs 1:
-
Central superior lateral nucleus of thalamus
- H:
-
Habenula complex
- Ig:
-
Granular insular area
- L:
-
Nucleus limitans of thalamus
- LD:
-
Laterodorsal nucleus of thalamus
- LGN:
-
Lateral geniculate nucleus of thalamus
- LP:
-
Lateroposterior nucleus of thalamus
- Mc:
-
Magnocellular nucleus of medial geniculate complex
- MD:
-
Mediodorsal nucleus of thalamus
- ML:
-
Medial lemniscus
- Pa:
-
Postauditory area
- PAUT:
-
Proximal arm-upper trunk receptive field
- PLLT:
-
Proximal leg-lower trunk receptive field
- PCN:
-
Paracentral nucleus of thalamus
- Pf:
-
Parafascicular nucleus of thalamus
- Pi:
-
Parainsular auditory area
- Pla:
-
Anterior nucleus of pulvinar
- Pli:
-
Inferior nucleus of pulvinar
- Pll:
-
Lateral nucleus of pulvinar
- Plm:
-
Medial nucleus of pulvinar
- PO:
-
Posterior nucleus of thalamus
- PPN:
-
Peripeduncular nucleus
- R:
-
Reticular complex of thalamus
- Ri:
-
Retroinsular area
- SG:
-
Suprageniculate nucleus of thalamus
- SN:
-
Substantia nigra
- SI:
-
First somatic sensory area
- SII:
-
Second somatic sensory area
- VL:
-
Ventrolateral complex of thalamus
- VPI:
-
Ventroposteroinferior nucleus of thalamus
- VPLc:
-
Pars caudalis of ventroposterolateral nucleus of thalamus
- VPM:
-
Ventroposteromedial nucleus of thalamus
- VPMpc:
-
Pars parvocellularis of ventroposteromedial nucleus of thalamus
- WB:
-
Whole body receptive field
- ZI:
-
Zona incerta
- 1:
-
Numbered areas of cerebral cortex, Brodmann terminology
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Burton, H., Robinson, C.J. (1981). Organization of the S II Parietal Cortex. 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_4
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