Fig. 5: The ancestral state of regional functional modal specialisation of cortical areas.
From: Evolution of cortical geometry and its link to function, behaviour and ecology
Cortical surface shape alignment across species and to common ancestors allows for the estimation of the spatial distribution of primary sensory areas (vision: blue, auditory: green, somatosensory: red) in the ancestral state of primates and rodents. The ancestral state can be mapped to all surfaces in the dataset to estimate the distribution and evolution of the relationship between modal specificity and surface shape. Renderings of the mapping of the ancestral state estimate onto all surfaces of the dataset are provided in Supplementary Data 11.
