Abbreviation

AUDpo

Species

Rat

Description of part

Doron et al. (2002) have carefully remapped the traditional primary auditory area with electrophysiological methods in rat and suggest that a posterior auditory field be recognized in its posterior end, beginning about 5.8 mm posterior to bregma. They did not correlate their results with cytoarchitecture, so comparisons of borders between auditory areas across atlases, rat strains, animal ages, and different histological procedures are crude at best when based strictly on a skull feature like bregma. Clearly, additional characterization of auditory and surrounding cortical areas with both anatomical and physiological methods is needed.

Part type

gray matter

Nomenclature

Swanson-2004

Endorsement

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

Reference

Posterior auditory area - Mouse - Dong-2007