{"id":8827,"date":"2019-05-22T16:11:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/primary_sensory_cortices\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:11:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:56","slug":"primary_sensory_cortices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/primary_sensory_cortices\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary sensory cortices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A general term referring to those parts of the cortex that get the most direct input from the retina (eye), cochlea (ear) or skin surface. &nbsp;For many years, it was held that the primary sensory cortices were not functional multimodal. &nbsp;More recent studies in both humans and animals has revealed that while isolated stimuli can elicit clear-cut neuronal responses in one modality, but also in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/23752667\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/23752667?target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">other primary sensory cortices<\/a>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"cochlea\">Cochlea<\/a>, <a href=\"entorhinal_cortex\">Entorhinal cortex<\/a>, <a href=\"inferior_parietal_lobe_-ipl-\">Inferior parietal lobe (IPL)<\/a>, <a href=\"primary_motor_cortex\">Primary motor cortex<\/a>, Primary visual cortex, <a href=\"retina\">Retina<\/a>, <a href=\"somatosensory_cortex\">Somatosensory cortex<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A general term referring to those parts of the cortex that get the most direct input from the retina (eye), cochlea (ear) or skin surface. &nbsp;For many years, it was held that the primary sensory cortices were not functional multimodal. &nbsp;More recent studies in both humans and animals has revealed that while isolated stimuli can &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/primary_sensory_cortices\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Primary sensory cortices&#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-8827","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\/8827","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=8827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}