Parieto-Occipital

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

abbreviation: PO

Abbreviation

PO

Species

Macaque

Description of part

Area PO (parieto-occipital) is a topographically organized area situated medial and dorsal to PIP (Colby et al., 1988). Collator note: See Table 1, pages 6-7. PO is defined in Colby, Gattass, Olson & Gross, 1988 with high confidence in identification of region but uncertainty in border assignments (qualitative assessment of authors).

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