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Published February 13, 1976 | public
Journal Article

Representation of the visual field on the medical wall of occipital-parietal cortex in the owl monkey

Abstract

The medical visual area is located on the medical wall of occipital-parietal cortex. A much larger proportion of this area is devoted to the representation of the more peripheral parts of the visual field than in any other cortical area or subcortical visual structure than has been mapped previously in any species of primate.

Additional Information

© 1976 American Association for the Advancement of Science. Received 16 October 1975; revised 21 November 1975. The experiments reported in this study were conducted at the Department of Neurophysiology, University of Wisconsin. We thank Dr. Leon Schmidt, Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, Alabama, for providing the owl monkeys. Dr. R. H. Lane and Mr. F. M. Miezin assisted in some of the data collection. Histological materials were prepared by Mrs. I. Lucey and Mrs. J. Eckleberry. Figures were drawn by Ms. D. Urban. This work was supported by NIH grants NS-05236, NS-06225, and NS-12131; NSF grant GB-36779; and an Alfred P. Sloan fellowship to J.M.A. A brief abstract of this work was published in Anat. Rec. 178, 297 (1974).

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