Tags: Anatomical Structure, Brain.
The barrel cortex refers to the dark-staining regions of layer four of the somatosensory cortex where somatosensory inputs from the contralateral side of the body come in from the thalamus. Barrels are found in some species of rodents and species of at least two other orders. The rest of this article will focus on the ‘whisker barrels’ in the somatosensory cortex of rodents.
