Université de Fribourg

Divergence and convergence of thalamocortical projections to premotor and supplementary motor cortex: a multiple tracing study in the macaque monkey

Morel, Anne ; Liu, Jian ; Wannier, Thierry ; Jeanmonod, Daniel ; Rouiller, Eric M.

In: European Journal of Neuroscience, 2005, vol. 21(4), p. 1007

The premotor cortex of macaque monkeys is currently subdivided into at least six different subareas on the basis of structural, hodological and physiological criteria. To determine the degree of divergence/convergence of thalamocortical projections to mesial [supplementary motor area (SMA)-proper and pre-SMA] and lateral (PMd-c, PMd-r, PMv-c and PMv-r) premotor (PM) subareas, quantitative...