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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
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martinfe@uv.es
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Abstract:

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.

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

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