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The cortical sensory projections of somatic, auditory, and visual origin have been mapped in the chloralosed potto. The pathways of the contralateral side of the body project in a classical somatotopic fashion to a large area SI, behind the motor cortex and the central sulcus. The latter constitutes the posterior boundary of the motor cortex only in its ventral part. In its middle zone the motor cortex extends to its posterior lip. Above the sulcus the motor zone is immediately adjacent to the preparietal area. Visual evoked potentials are recorded behind the transverse occipital sulcus with a maximal focus just caudal to an occipital dimple. The auditory area is situated between the sylvian and parallel sulci. No heterosensory potentials (visual or auditory) can be recorded from the somatomotor area, nor from any other part outside their primary projection area. An area of convergent somatic projection devoid of somatotopic organization is found between SI and the auditory zone and another one in front of the central sulcus. In view of the poor cortical heterosensory integration, the sensory projection system of the potto seems to be less developed than in the cat.
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Boisacq-Schepens, N., Gerebtzoff, M.A. & Goffart, M. Sensory projections to the cerebral cortex inPerodicticus potto edwarsi Bouvier . Primates 18, 401–416 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02383118
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