Medial Superior Temporal

Hierarchy level in atlas is 3: 2 superstructures include it.

abbreviation: MST

Abbreviation

MST

Species

Macaque

Description of part

MST as originally identified as the region receiving direct inputs from MT and lying near the fundus of the STS (Maunsell and Van Essen, 1983). As initially defined, MST is not a homogenous region.

Part type

gray matter

Nomenclature

Felleman & van Essen

Endorsement

The approach used by the collator Mihail Bota is not endorsed by the author of the nomenclature.

Reference

Author: Felleman D.J. & Van Essen D.C.
Title: Distributed hierarchical processing in the primate cerebral cortex
Title of Book: Cereb Cortex
Volume: 1
Year: 1991
Number: 1
Pages: 1-47