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By Mary Carlson, Carol Welt (auth.), Clinton N. Woolsey (eds.)

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In April 1979 a symposium on "Multiple Somatic Sensory Motor, visible and Auditory components and Their Connectivities" used to be held on the FASEB assembly in Dallas, Texas. The papers awarded at that symposium are the foundation of many of the considerably augmented, up-to-date chapters within the 3 volumes of Cortical Sensory Organi­ zation. in basic terms the cloth in bankruptcy eight of quantity three used to be no longer pre­ sented in a single shape or one other at that assembly. the purpose of the symposium used to be to check the current prestige of the sphere of cortical illustration within the somatosensory, visible and auditory structures. because the early Forties, the variety of famous cortical parts on the topic of every one of those platforms has been expanding until eventually at the present the variety of visually comparable parts exceeds a dozen. even if the quantity is much less for the somatic and auditory structures, those are also extra a number of than they have been past and are inclined to bring up nonetheless extra given that we may perhaps anticipate each one method to have primarily an identical variety of parts relating to it.

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NAPIER, J. R.. AND NAPIER, P. H. A Handbook oj Living Primates. London: Academic Press. 1967. 45. NAPIER, J. R.. AND WALKER, A. C. Vertical clinging and leaping-A newly recognized category of locomotor behaviour of primates. , 6: 204-219. 1967. 46. NELSON. R. J .. SUR, M .. AND KAAs, J. H. The representation of the body surface in somatic koniocortex of a prosimian primate. Galago senegalensis. Anat. Rec .. 190: 491-492. 1978. 47. PAUL. R. L.. MERZENICH. M .. AND GOODMAN. H. Representation of slowly and rapidly adapting cutaneous mechanoreceptors of the hand in Brodmann's areas 3 and 1 of Macaca mulatta.

Both fields are the first cutaneous representation caudal to motor cortex (area 4). In addition, in both galagos and tree shrews, there is a narrow high threshold somatic zone of cortex Multiple Representations of the Body in Primates 41 between S I and motor cortex that may represent a 3a "deep body" field that is less developed than in monkeys. Finally, in both tree shrews and galagos, the cortex caudal to S 1 is responsive to somatosensory stimuli, although the stimuli generally have to be more intense to activate this cortex.

Lorisidae and Tupaiidae. In: Prosimian Biology. edited by R. D. MARTIN, G. A. DOYLE. AND A. C. WALKER. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1974. pp. 881-890. HAINES. D. E .. ALBRIGHT, B. C. GOODE, G. E .. AND MURRAY, H. M. The external morphology of the brain in some Lorisidae. In: Prosimian Biology. edited by R. D. MARTIN. G. A. DOYLE. AND A. C. WALKER. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 1974, pp. 673724. HERSHKOWITZ, P. Cerebral fissural patterns in platyrrhine monkeys. Folia Prtmat, 13: 213-240, 1970.

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