Slide 24


Sensory Representations in Platypus Brain........ with 3 somatotopic  "Platypusculi".

Three somatopic representations have been defined, each with the limbs and tail pointing medially and caudally, while the bill is pointing anteriorly and laterally in all three.
Blue: caudal field ?PV
Red: S1; note internal stripe-like representation
Brown: ?S2: note reversal about long body axis compared with PV and S1.
Green: Visual cortex
Orange and Yellow: Auditory cortex. Note that auditory cortex is almost completey surrounded by somatosensory cortex.

There is a vast overrepresentation of the bill in each "platypusculus".
 


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