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A modality-specific somatosensory area within the insula of the rhesus monkey
R J Schneider1, D P Friedman, M Mishkin
1Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Brain Research
|September 3, 1993
Abstract:
Response properties of neurons in the monkey's granular insula (Ig) were examined with somatic, auditory, visual, and gustatory stimuli. Results indicate that a major portion of Ig is a somatic processing area exclusively, with units that have large and often bilateral receptive fields, consistent with the view that this area serves as a higher-order, modality-specific link in the somatosensory-limbic pathway.