Case Western Reserve University

Date:
1980-1981
Reference:
PP/CRI/E/1/29/11
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Case Western Reserve University. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C W R U FRONTIERS IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES MAPPING THE CORTEX Dr. F.H.C. Crick Sa/k Institute The Neocortex consists of two extensive thin sheets of cells, one on each side of the head. It is the region of the brain which, above all others, is most highly developed in man. It has long been known that different parts of it perform in different ways. One region specializes in sight, another in sound, another in touch and so on. More recently it has been shown that there are many discrete areas for each one of these broad functions. In the visual system, for example, the visual field is mapped onto perhaps as many as a dozen different areas in the cortex of monkeys and, by extension, of man. The lecture will outline what we know about some of these areas, what we mean by mapping, what functions each area appears to perform, how the various areas are interconnected and how they relate to various subcortical regions. It will try to estimate what more we need to discover and what techniques we might use to do this. PLEASE NOTE: DAY: THURSDAY (NOT WEDNESDAY) MAY 14, 1981 TI M E: 3:00 P. M. (NOT4: 00 P.M.) PLACE: FORD AUDITORIUM-ALLEN MEMORIAL LIBRARY (NOT SC HOOL OF MEDICINE ) A TT ENTI ON Sponsoring Dept.: Anatomy FUTURE LECTURE... Data Sponsoring Department Dr. Bruce Roe June 17, 1981 Macromolecular Science