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SSp (Primary somatosensory area) projects to VPL (Ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus)
All claims for this connection- Species
- Rat
- Result
- present
- Method
- anterograde tracer
- Sign
- unknown
- Strength
- strong
- Evidence
- Prominent thalamic label occurred in VPL after genital cortex injections. It was concentrated in the medial part of the nucleus near the VPM border.
- Source
Physiological and Anatomical Outputs of Rat Genital Cortex
Cerebral Cortex, 2018
DOI 10.1093/cercor/bhx359 · PubMed 29373631 · PMC6093453, Fig. 6E–G, Table 2Licence: CC-BY-NC-4.0
- Named in the paper
- “penis/clitoris cortex” and “ventral posterolateral (VPL) nucleus of the thalamus”
- Made by
- an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5-5, extract@0.3.0), 2026-10-09
- Checked by
a second AI model (claude-opus-5-5) agrees, 2026-10-09
“Prominent VPL label spreading along its medial part near the VPM border is described.”
- Status
proposed
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