Sensory-Motor Areas and Aspects of Cortical Connectivity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. What Makes a Map in Somatosensory Cortex?

   • Robert W. Dykes, Andre Ruest

   Pages 1-29

3. Second Somatosensory Cortex and Related Areas

   • Harold Burton

   Pages 31-98

4. Vestibular Cortex

   • John M. Fredrickson, Allan M. Rubin

   Pages 99-111

5. Connectivity of the Primate Sensory-Motor Cortex

   • Edward G. Jones

   Pages 113-183

6. Functions of Corticocortical Neurons of Somatosensory, Motor, and Parietal Cortex

   • Peter Zarzecki

   Pages 185-215

7. Motor Cortex Output in Primates

   • Edward V. Evarts

   Pages 217-241

8. Motor Cortex of Rodents

   • Steven P. Wise, John P. Donoghue

   Pages 243-270

9. Termination of Thalamic Afferents in the Cerebral Cortex

   • Edward L. White

   Pages 271-289

10. General Organization of Callosal Connections in the Cerebral Cortex

    • Giorgio M. Innocenti

    Pages 291-353

11. The Thalamic Intralaminar Nuclei and the Cerebral Cortex

    • Giorgio Macchi, Marina Bentivoglio

    Pages 355-401

12. New Perspectives on the Organization and Evolution of Nonspecific Thalamocortical Projections

    • Miles Herkenham

    Pages 403-445

13. Topography of Corticostriatal Projections in Nonhuman Primates and Implications for Functional Parcellation of the Neostriatum

    • Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic, Lynn D. Selemon

    Pages 447-466

14. The Claustrum and the Cerebral Cortex

    • Helen Sherk

    Pages 467-499

15. Back Matter

    Pages 501-510

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Volume 5 of Cerebral Cortex completes the sequence of three volumes on the individual functional areas of the cerebral cortex by covering the somatosensory and motor areas. However, the chapters on these areas lead naturally to a series of others on patterns of connectivity in the cortex, intracortical and subcortical, so that the volume as a whole achieves a much broader viewpoint. The individual chapters on the sensory-motor areas reflect the considerable diversity of interest within the field, for each of the authors has given his or her chapter a different emphasis, reflecting in part topical interest and in part the body of data resulting from work in a particular species. In considering the functional organization of the somatosensory cortex, Robert Dykes and Andre Ruest have chosen to concentrate on the nature of the mapping process and its significance. Harold Burton, in his chapter on the somatosensory fields buried in the sylvian fissure, shows how critical is an understanding of this mapping process in the functional subdivision of the cortex. A frequently overlooked subdivision of the cortex, the vestibular region, is given the emphasis it deserves in a chapter by John Fredrickson and Allan Rubin. The further functional subdivisions that occur within the first somatosensory area are given an anatom­ ical basis in the review by Edward Jones of connectivity in the primate sensory­ motor cortex.

• anatomy
• cortex
• evolution
• neurons
• physiology

• California College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, USA

  Edward G. Jones

• Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA

  Alan Peters

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