Brodmann area 27
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Area 27 of Brodmann-1909 is a cytoarchitecturally defined cortical
area that is a rostral part of the parahippocampal gyrus
of the guenon
(Brodmann-1909). It is commonly regarded as a synonym of presubiculum (Crosby-62).
Cerebral cortex
The cerebral cortex is a sheet of neural tissue that is outermost to the cerebrum of the mammalian brain. It plays a key role in memory, attention, perceptual awareness, thought, language, and consciousness. It is constituted of up to six horizontal layers, each of which has a different...
area that is a rostral part of the parahippocampal gyrus
Parahippocampal gyrus
The parahippocampal gyrus is a grey matter cortical region of the brain that surrounds the hippocampus. This region plays an important role in memory encoding and retrieval....
of the guenon
Guenon
The guenons are the genus Cercopithecus of Old World monkeys. Not all the members of this genus have the word "guenon" in their common names, and because of changes in scientific classification, some monkeys in other genera may have common names that do include the word "guenon"...
(Brodmann-1909). It is commonly regarded as a synonym of presubiculum (Crosby-62).
External links
- For Neuroanatomy of this area visit BrainInfo