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Association cortex
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Those areas of the neocortex in which the individual cellular layers are easily distinguishable (as opposed to idiotypic (primary) cortices in which layers 2 through 5 are more uniform). Homotypic cortex is generally further subdivided into unimodal and heteromodal association cortices, depending on whether it receives input from a single or multiple sensory modalities.
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Romero, M. (2018). Homotypic Cortex. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_741
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