Université de Fribourg

Callosal connections of dorsal versus ventral premotor areas in the macaque monkey: a multiple retrograde tracing study

Boussaoud, Driss ; Tanné-Gariépy, Judith ; Wannier, Thierry ; Rouiller, Eric M.

In: BMC Neuroscience, 2005, vol. 6, p. 67

Background: The lateral premotor cortex plays a crucial role in visually guided limb movements. It is divided into two main regions, the dorsal (PMd) and ventral (PMv) areas, which are in turn subdivided into functionally and anatomically distinct rostral (PMd-r and PMv-r) and caudal (PMd-c and PMv-c) sub-regions. We analyzed the callosal inputs to these premotor subdivisions following 23...