title: A modality-specific somatosensory area within the insula of the rhesus monkey.
abstract: Response properties of neurons in the monkey's granular insula (Ig) were examined with somatic, auditory, visual, and gustatory stimuli. Results indicate that a major portion of Ig is a somatic processing area exclusively, with units that have large and often bilateral receptive fields, consistent with the view that this area serves as a higher-order, modality-specific link in the somatosensory-limbic pathway.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: D P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Friedman
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mishkin
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000818:Animals; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D010812:Physical Stimulation; D013003:Somatosensory Cortex / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D013649:Taste / Q000502:physiology