Cortical maps are collections (areas) of minicolumns in the brain cortex that have been identified as performing a specific information processing function (texture maps, color maps, contour maps, etc.).
parietal cortex. Cortical remapping Buonomano, Dean V.; Merzenich, Michael M. (March 1998). "CORTICAL PLASTICITY: From Synapses to Maps". Annual Review...
Cortical remapping, also referred to as cortical reorganization, is the process by which an existing corticalmap is affected by a stimulus resulting...
A cortical homunculus (from Latin homunculus 'little man, miniature human') is a distorted representation of the human body, based on a neurological "map"...
of neurons in each cortical area are specified by cortical stem cells, known as radial glial cells, in a primordial map. This map is controlled by secreted...
like cortical remapping or neural oscillation. Other forms of neuroplasticity include homologous area adaptation, cross modal reassignment, map expansion...
necessarily indicate homologous areas. A similar, but more detailed corticalmap was published by Constantin von Economo and Georg N. Koskinas in 1925...
cluster together as cortical columns. David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel proposed the classic ice-cube organization model of cortical columns for two tuning...
the coordinated activation of a multitude of cortical points, terminating at a final locus of motor cortical activity, which holds the limb at a spatial...
A cortical minicolumn (also called cortical microcolumn) is a vertical column through the cortical layers of the brain. Neurons within the microcolumn...
intelligence. Cortical thickness has also been found to correlate positively with intelligence in humans. However, the rate of growth of cortical thickness...
the barrel field. The 'barrels' of the barrel field are regions within cortical layer IV that are visibly darker when stained to reveal the presence of...
Steinberg EE, Merzenich MM (May 2006). "Perceptual learning directs auditory corticalmap reorganization through top-down influences". The Journal of Neuroscience...
when hunting instead. In 2017, Berns and Ashwell published comparative corticalmaps of thylacine and Tasmanian devil brains, showing that the thylacine...
A cortical column is a group of neurons forming a cylindrical structure through the cerebral cortex of the brain perpendicular to the cortical surface...
to make an audacious (if scientifically incorrect) transposition of corticalmaps obtained in monkeys to the human brain. This proposal soon led to practical...
47 and by the rostral area 12 or, in an early version of Brodmann's corticalmap (Brodmann-1909), the prefrontal Brodmann area 11-1909. Area 10 lies underneath...
fingers. However, not only are the fingers of their hands fused, but the corticalmaps of their individual fingers also form a club hand. The fingers can be...
layer for cortico-cortical fibers) where they activate inhibitory muscarinic receptors of pyramidal cells, and thus inhibit cortico-cortical conduction. In...
Commons has media related to Somatotopy. Retinotopy Topographic map (neuroanatomy) Cortical homunculus Somatosensory system Motor system Saladin, Kenneth...
Wilder Penfield conducted cortical stimulation mapping research in the 1950s, resulting in the cortical homunculus and corticalmaps; neurosurgeon Tipu Aziz...
and the effect on cortical processing was measured. Rats that were exposed to pulsed noise during the critical period had cortical neurons that were less...
allowed researchers to study the relationship between cortical structure and systemic function. Cortical stimulation mapping is used for a number of clinical...
individual neurons. Isolated cortical neurons fire regularly under certain conditions, but in the intact brain cortical cells are bombarded by highly...
a molecular pre-pattern of the cortical areas during early embryonic stages. The protomap is a feature of the cortical ventricular zone, which contains...
awake to avoid brain damage. During the surgery, the neurosurgeon performs cortical mapping to identify vital areas, called the "eloquent brain", that should...
discrete "maps" of the human body. Under normal conditions, each body part (such as individual fingers) occupies a distinct area on these corticalmaps. In...
Global Information