{"id":7423,"date":"2019-05-22T15:56:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/calcarine_sulcus_-or_fissure\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:56:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:43","slug":"calcarine_sulcus_-or_fissure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/calcarine_sulcus_-or_fissure\/","title":{"rendered":"Calcarine sulcus (or fissure)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discovered and named by <a href=\"http:\/\/aleph0.clarku.edu\/huxley\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/aleph0.clarku.edu\/huxley\/&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas H. Huxley<\/a> (1825-1895) in 1861 during his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthro.psu.edu\/weiss_lab\/CQ31_FindingHippocampus.pdf\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.anthro.psu.edu\/weiss_lab\/CQ31_FindingHippocampus.pdf&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pursuit of the &#8216;hippocampus minor&#8217;<\/a> in non-human primates, it is a sulcus located in layer VI of the occipital lobe that begins under the posterior end of the corpus callosum and arches to the occipital pole. &nbsp;The visual cortex is arranged around this sulcus (see figure below). &nbsp;The central visual field is represented in the anterior portion of the sulcus, and the peripheral visual field in the anterior portion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image042.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Calcarine sulcus, shown as a blue line on this sMRI image in the saggital (vertical) plane<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"corpus_callosum\">Corpus callosum<\/a>, <a href=\"hippocampus\">Hippocampus<\/a>, <a href=\"occipital_cortex_-or_lobe-\">Occipital cortex (or lobe)<\/a>, <a href=\"sulcus\">Sulcus<\/a>, <a href=\"primary_visual_cortex_-v1-\">Primary visual cortex (V1)<\/a>, Visual cortex<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovered and named by Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895) in 1861 during his pursuit of the &#8216;hippocampus minor&#8217; in non-human primates, it is a sulcus located in layer VI of the occipital lobe that begins under the posterior end of the corpus callosum and arches to the occipital pole. &nbsp;The visual cortex is arranged around this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/calcarine_sulcus_-or_fissure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Calcarine sulcus (or fissure)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}