Topographical Variability of Cytoarchitectonic Areas

2010 ◽  
pp. 53-78
Author(s):  
Jörg Rademacher
1991 ◽  
Vol 331 (1261) ◽  
pp. 291-294 ◽  

The developmental mechanisms underlying the subdivision of the neocortex into structurally and functionally distinct areas is central to our understanding of the development of human cognitive capacity and the pathogenesis of congenital disorders of higher brain functions. The protomap hypothesis suggests how the cytoarchitectonic pattern of the cerebral cortex may be generated by a combination of intrinsic and extrinsic influences during embryonic development. Although little is known about the genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying this individual and species-specific diversity of cellular and synaptic architecture, experimental manipulation of development in the primate embryo provides a glimpse into the cascade of cellular events involved in the control of cell numbers, specification of neuronal phenotypes, their apportions into cytoarchitectonic areas, and establishment of area-specific synaptic circuitry.


NeuroImage ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Hari ◽  
T. Nagamine ◽  
N. Nishitani ◽  
N. Mikuni ◽  
T. Sato ◽  
...  

1978 ◽  
Vol 200 (1138) ◽  
pp. 103-108 ◽  

The projection of the primary somatic sensory area (SI) upon area 5 of the parietal lobe of the monkey has been studied with axonal degeneration methods. No overlap occurs between the projection of the different topographic subdivisions of SI, but within the projection of each individual subdivision there is spatial convergence within the cortex of area 5 containing the same representation. The projections from the different cytoarchitectonic areas of SI overlap in area 5, and the number of fibres arising from area 3b is less than from areas 1 and 2. The degeneration after a small lesion in the trunk and face region of SI occupies a continuous antero-posterior zone of area 5, but after similar lesions in the distal limb region of SI the degeneration in area 5 is in three separate bands. In the projection of SI upon area 5 there is a reversal in the antero-posterior dimension with area 3 projecting more posteriorly than areas 1 and 2.


NeuroImage ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. S456 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Rademacher ◽  
C. Werner ◽  
P. Morosan ◽  
A. Schleicher ◽  
K. Zilles ◽  
...  

2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 1800-1811 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. B. Eickhoff ◽  
C. Grefkes ◽  
K. Zilles ◽  
G. R. Fink

1974 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Sideroff ◽  
Orlando Bueno ◽  
Alan Hirsch ◽  
Ted Weyand ◽  
James McGaugh

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Insausti ◽  
Marta Córcoles-Parada ◽  
Mar Maria Ubero ◽  
Adriana Rodado ◽  
Ana Maria Insausti ◽  
...  

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