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 | | That is what the German anatomist Korbinian Brodmann did in the early 20th century, when he developed a map of the brain based on the differences in the cellular architecture of the various parts of the cortex. |
 | | For example, Brodmann's area 17, which receives information from a nucleus of the thalamus that is connected to the retina, turns out to correspond precisely to the primary visual cortex. |
 | | And Brodmann's area 4, from which the axons of the large pyramidal cells project to the motor neurons of the spinal cord, corresponds broadly to the motor cortex. |
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