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 under the auspices of the Committee on the Nervous System of the American Physiological Society. The papers presented at that symposium are the basis of most of the substantially augmented, updated chapters in the three volumes of Cortical Sensory Organization. Only material in chap ter 8 of volume 3 was not presented 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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-10-12
Mått:155 x 235 x 16 mm
Vikt:441 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cortical Sensory Organization
Antal sidor:266
Förlag:Humana Press Inc.
ISBN:9781461258193

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1 The Auditory Cortex: Patterns of Corticocortical Projections Related to Physiological Maps in the Cat.- 1. Tonotopic Organization.- 2. Corticocortical Conections Related to Best-Frequency Maps.- 3. Binaural Organization of A I.- 4. Corticocortical Connections Related to Binaural Maps.- Abbreviations.- References.- 2 Auditory Forebrain Organization: Thalamocortical and Corticothalamic Connections in the Cat.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Basic Approach.- 3. Summary of Results.- 4. Conclusions..- Acknowledgments.- References.- 3 Auditory Cortical Areas in Primates.- 1. Early Studies in Monkeys, Apes and Humans.- 2. Microelectrode Studies of the Organization of Primate Auditory Cortex.- Acknowledgments.- References.- 4 Organization of Auditory Connections: The Primate Auditory Cortex.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Cytoarchitecture of the Medial Geniculate Body.- 3. Projections to the Medial Geniculate.- 4. Projections to Other Thalamic Nuclei.- 5. Projections to the Inferior Colliculus.- 6. Cortical Projections.- 7. Ipsilateral Cortical Projections.- 8. Contralateral Cortical Projections.- Abbreviations.- References.- 5 Polysensory “Association” Areas of the Cerebral Cortex: Organization of Acoustic Input in the Cat.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Methods.- 3. Acoustic Properties of Neurons in Cortical Association Fields.- 4. The Nonspecific Projection System.- 5. The Auditory “Lemniscal Adjunct” System.- 6. Chloralose Anesthesia and the Functional Interpretation of the Data.- 7. Conclusions and Final Considerations.- Acknowledgments.- References.- 6 Functional Organization of the Auditory Cortex: Representation Beyond Tonotopy in the Bat.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Methods.- 3. Results and Discussion.- 4. Summary and Conclusions.- Acknowledgments.- References.- 7 A Theory of Neural AuditorySpace: Auditory Representation in the Owl and Its Significance.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Perception of Auditory Space.- 3. Auditory Receptive Field.- 4. A Neural Map of Auditory Space.- 5. Functional Division within the Auditory Midbrain.- 6. Concluding Remarks.- Acknowledgments.- References.- 8 Cortical Auditory Area of Macaca mulatta and Its Relation to the Second Somatic Sensory Area (SM II): Determination by Electrical Excitation of Auditory Nerve Fibers in the Spiral Osseous Lamina and by Click Stimulation.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Materials and Methods.- 3. Results.- 4. Discussion.- Acknowledgments.- References.