Middle Temporal Area

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This page covers biological details of component Middle Temporal Area. Region is part of aHuman target integrated biological model.

Top-down path to region: Cerebral Cortex -> Occipital Lobe (NC.LOBE.OCC) -> Middle Temporal Area (NSA.NC.OCC.MT) (see Mind Maps)
Type: cortex
Brain area: Neocortical Brain - Sensory Aggregation Area
Brodmann ID: 19
Role: processor
Function: Integration of local motion signals into global percepts
Notes to function: V5, Ventro-dorsal stream, inferior occipital gyrus

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Components

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Connectivity

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Inbound Region Connections:

Source Area	Source Region	Source Name	Type	Reference
NPE	NPE.NC.OCC.V3D	Dorsal Associative Visual Cortex	feedforward-glu	Paths from Retina to Parietal Cortex and IT (V3 -> MT, abstract)
NSA	NSA.NC.OCC.V1	Primary Visual Cortex	feedforward-glu	Paths from Retina to Parietal Cortex and IT (V1 -> MT)
	NSA.NC.OCC.V2TK	Secondary Visual Cortex, Thick Stripe	feedforward-glu	Paths from Retina to Parietal Cortex and IT (V2 -> MT, abstract)
	NSA.NC.OCC.V4D	Dorsal Visual Area V4	feedforward-glu	Paths from Retina to Parietal Cortex and IT (V4 -> MT, abstract)

Outbound Region Connections:

Target Area	Target Region	Target Name	Type	Reference
NPE	NPE.NC.IPL.MST	Medial Superior Temporal Area	feedforward-glu	Paths from Retina to Parietal Cortex and IT (MT -> MST)
	NPE.NC.IPS.LIP	Lateral Intraparietal Sulcus	feedforward-glu	Paths from Retina to Parietal Cortex and IT (MT -> LIP)
	NPE.NC.SPL.PG	Caudal Precuneus	feedforward-glu	Parietal Association Cortex (V5A -> 7a)
NSA	NSA.NC.IPS.VIP	Ventral Intraparietal Sulcus	feedforward-glu	Paths from Retina to Parietal Cortex and IT (MT -> VIP)