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Mammalian Neocortical Commissures

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Structure and Function of Cerebral Commissures

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Abstract

The object of this chapter is to serve as an introduction to the part of the text devoted to structure and function of cerebral commissures in the mammal. It will attempt to give a brief review of some of the work to date and to outline some of the problem areas which face workers in this field today. For fuller treatment of some aspects of the subject the papers of Berlucchi (1972) and Doty and Negrâo (1973) are recommended.

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  1. L. J. Garey
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  1. MRC Unit on Neural Mechanisms of Behaviour, UK

    I. Steele Russell

  2. Department of Physiology 1, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    M. W. van Hof

  3. Institute of Physiology, University of Pisa, Italy

    G. Berlucchi

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Garey, L.J. (1979). Mammalian Neocortical Commissures. In: Russell, I.S., van Hof, M.W., Berlucchi, G. (eds) Structure and Function of Cerebral Commissures. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03645-5_10

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