Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-b95js Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-02-06T18:45:24.479Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The origin of the amniote sensory and motor cortices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2004

Fernando Martinez-Garcia
Fernando Martinez-Garcia*
Affiliation:
Department de Biologia Funcional i Antropologia Física, Universitat de València, Burjassot, ES-46100, Spain
*
martinfe@uv.es
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract:

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

A rigorous cladistic analysis of the dorsal pallium of amniotes indicates that the stem amniote lacked sensorimotor areas. Reptiles apparently acquired a visual cortex by parcellation from the multimodal, hippocampal-like mediodorsal pallium of stem amniotes. The high number of sensory areas of the mammalian isocortex might derive from the specific properties it shows, such as growth-promoting influence on thalamic axons.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 5 , October 2003 , pp. 561 - 563
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003