The dorsal third tier area in Galago senegalensis
Abstract
Five extrastriate visual field representations adjoin the anterior border of V-II in the owl monkey and collectively comprise a third tier of visual areas in this species. We have sought to determine whether the presence of a third tier of visual areas is a characteristic feature of visual cortex organization in primates. The order primates contains two suborders: the haplorhines (tarsiers, monkeys, apes and man) and the strepsirhines (lorisoids and lemuroids). We have found in a strepsirhine species, Galago senegalensis, that there exists a third tier of visual areas, one of which, the dorsal area, is described in detail in this paper. This finding together with recent evidence from haplorhine species suggests that a third tier of visual areas is a characteristic feature of visual cortex organization in primates.
Additional Information
© 1979 Published by Elsevier. Accepted 30 August 1979. This work was supported by NIH Grants NS-00178 and NS-12121. We thank Mr. Steven Petersen, Dr. Kathleen Rockland and Mr. David Sivertsen for their help during the experiments, and Dr. Kathleen Rockland for her critical reading of the manuscript.Additional details
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- 104299
- DOI
- 10.1016/0006-8993(79)90450-5
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20200708-152147915
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- NS-00178
- NIH
- NS-12121
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2020-07-09Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-16Created from EPrint's last_modified field