heteromodal association cortex

Introduction

6 distinct layers.

Characteristics:

• neuronal responses are not confined to any single sensory modality
• inputs come from unimodal areas in multiple modalities & from other heteromodal areas
• deficits in heteromodal cortex are always multimodal

Cortex that is heteromodal is structurally homotypical.

More general terms

• homotypical isocortex