Granular insular cortex (or visceral area) refers to a portion of thecerebral cortex defined on the basis of internal structure in the human and macaque,[1] the rat,[2] and the mouse.[3] Classified asneocortex, it is in primates distinguished from adjacentallocortex (periallocortex) by the presence of granular layers – external granular layer (II) and internal granular layer (IV) – and by differentiation of the external pyramidal layer (III) into sublayers.[4] In primates it occupies the posterior part of the insula.[5] In rodents it is located on the lateral surface of the cortex rostrally, dorsal to the gustatory area or, more caudally, dorsal to theagranular insula.[6]
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