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The evolution of neural dynamics permitting isocortical-limbic-motor communication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2004

R. Hermer-Vazquez*
Affiliation:
Department of Physiology, SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY11203
L. Hermer-Vazquez*
Affiliation:
Department of Physiology, SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY11203

Abstract:

The first cortically based associative circuits integrated olfactory, motivational, and motor information. Many of the neural dynamics present in these evolutionarily ancient, olfactory-motor circuits, such as the broadband frequency, phase, and amplitude modulations seen during recognition of a rewarded olfactory stimulus, are also found in isocortical circuits. These results suggest that mechanisms permitting olfactory associative processing formed the basis for evolutionarily more recent large-scale couplings involving isocortical areas.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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