Distributed hierarchical processing in the primate cerebral cortex-英文文献.pdf

1 2 Distributed Hierarchical Processing Daniel J. Felleman and David C. Van Essen in the Primate Cerebral Cortex 1 Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas 77030, and 2 Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125 In recent years, many new cortical areas have been During the past decade, there has been an explosion identified in the macaque monkey. The number of iden- of information about the organization and connectiv- tified connections between areas has increased even ity of sensory and motor areas in the mammalian ce- more dramatically. We report here on (1) a summary of rebral cortex . Many laboratories have concentrated the layout of cortical areas associated with vision and their efforts on the visual cortex of macaque monkeys, with other modalities, (2) a computerized database for whose superb visual capacities in many ways rival storing and representing large amounts of information those of humans . In this article, we survey recent on connectivity patterns, and (3) the application of these progress in charting the layout of different cortical data to the analysis of hierarchical organization of the