Cortical Sensory Organization

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. The Somatic Sensory Cortex

   • Mary Carlson, Carol Welt

   Pages 1-27

3. The Postcentral Somatosensory Cortex

   • Jon H. Kaas, Mriganka Sur, Randall J. Nelson, Michael M. Merzenich

   Pages 29-45

4. Organization of the S I Cortex

   • Michael M. Merzenich, Mriganka Sur, Randall J. Nelson, Jon H. Kaas

   Pages 47-66

5. Organization of the S II Parietal Cortex

   • H. Burton, C. J. Robinson

   Pages 67-119

6. Body Topography in the Second Somatic Sensory Area

   • David P. Friedman

   Pages 121-165

7. Supplementary Sensory Area

   • Elisabeth A. Murray, Joe D. Coulter

   Pages 167-195

8. Spatial Organization of the Primate Precentral Cortex

   • H. C. Kwan, J. T. Murphy, Y. C. Wong

   Pages 197-204

9. Intracortical Connectivities of Somatic Sensory and Motor Areas

   • R. M. Bowker, J. D. Coulter

   Pages 205-242

10. Back Matter

    Pages 243-245

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In April 1979 a symposium on "Multiple Somatic Sensory Motor, Visual and Auditory Areas and Their Connectivities" was held at the FASEB meeting in Dallas, Texas. The papers presented at that symposium are the basis of most of the substantially augmented, updated chapters in the three volumes of Cortical Sensory Organi­ zation. Only the material in chapter 8 of volume 3 was not pre­ sented in one form or another at that meeting. The aim of the symposium was to review the present status of the field of cortical representation in the somatosensory, visual and auditory systems. Since the early 1940s, the number of recognized cortical areas related to each of these systems has been increasing until at present the number of visually related areas exceeds a dozen. Although the number is less for the somatic and auditory systems, these also are more numerous than they were earlier and are likely to increase still further since we may expect each system to have essentially the same number of areas related to it.

• cortex
• information
• information processing
• neurons
• primates

• University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

  Clinton N. Woolsey

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