Meanings
nounextrastriatum (plural extrastriata)
plural extrastriata
- The region outside of the corpus striatum
In the case of the weaker stimulus, this expansion was spatially limited, whereas in the case of the stronger stimulus, the foci kept expanding, fused together and covered a wide cortical area including V1 and the extrastriatum.
2015 August 1, “In Vivo Voltage-Sensitive Dye Study of Lateral Spreading of Cortical Activity in Mouse Primary Visual Cortex Induced by a Current Impulse”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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