Regional Differences in Cortical Organization

摘要

Understanding how the microstruc-ture of each region of the cerebral cortex relates to its particular function is still in its infancy. Why is it that some cortical areas of the human brain handle the processing of language and speech, whereas others carry out higher order perceptual processes such as face recognition? Are the signals carried by afferent neurons to these various cortical regions processed in different ways? Are the neurons in each cortical area organized differently?