Table 1.
List of abbreviations used throughout the text.
| CORTICAL FIELDS | |
| 3a | Somatosensory area (deep) |
| A1 | Primary auditory cortex |
| EC | Entorhinal cortex |
| FM | Frontal myelinated area |
| M1 | Primary motor cortex |
| MM | Multimodal cortex |
| PP/PPC | Posterior parietal cortex |
| S1 | Primary somatosensory area |
| S1 face | Primary somatosensory area, face division |
| S1 body | Primary somatosensory area, body division |
| S2 | Second somatosensory area |
| SC | Somatosensory caudal area |
| SR | Somatosensory rostral area |
| V1 | Primary visual area |
| V2 | Second visual area |
| SUBCORTICAL STRUCTURES | |
| APT | Anterior pretectum |
| CeM | Central medial nucleus |
| CL | Central lateral nucleus |
| CP | Cerebral peduncle |
| eml | External medullary lamina |
| Hb | Habenula |
| iml | Internal medullary lamina |
| LGNd | Lateral geniculate nucleus, dorsal division |
| LGNv | Lateral geniculate nucleus, ventral division |
| MD | Medial dorsal nucleus |
| MGNd | Medial geniculate nucleus, dorsal division |
| MGNm | Medial geniculate nucleus, magnocellular division |
| MGNv | Medial geniculate nucleus, ventral division |
| mt | Mammillothalamic tract |
| MV | Medioventral nucleus |
| ot | Optic Tract |
| PAG | Periaqueductal gray |
| pc | Posterior commissure |
| Pol | Posterior nucleus (lateral) |
| Pom | Posterior nucleus (medial) |
| Pul | Pulvinar |
| PV | Paraventricular nucleus |
| Rt | Reticular nucleus |
| ST | Subthalamic nucleus |
| VA | Ventral anterior nucleus |
| VB | Ventral basal nucleus |
| VL | Ventrolateral complex |
| VM | Ventromedial nucleus |
| VMb | Ventral medial basal nucleus |
| VP | Ventral posterior nucleus |
| VPl | Ventral posterolateral nucleus |
| VPm | Ventral posteromedial nucleus |
| OTHER ABBREVIATIONS | |
| CO | Cytochrome oxidase |
| CTB | Cholera toxin subunit-B |
| FE | Fluoro-emerald |
| fl | forelimb |
| FR | Fluoro-ruby |
| vGluT2 | Vesicular glutamate transporter 2 |