Avian pallium

In the anatomy of animals, an avian pallium is the dorsal telencephalon of a bird's brain. The subpallium is the ventral telencephalon.

Pallium of avian species tend to be relatively large, comprising ~75% of the telencephalic volume. Birds have a unique pallial structure known as the hyperpallium, once called the "hyperstriatum".

A 2002 conference at Duke University established a standard nomenclature for describing the avian pallium as follows:

*Pallium
**pyriform cortex
**olfactory bulb
**hippocampus
**corticoid area
**hyperpallium
***apicale
***intercalatum
***densocellulare
**mesopallium
***dorsale
***ventrale
**nidopallium
***field L2
***entopallium
***basorostralis
**arcopallium
**amygdaloid complex
***posterior amygdala
***nucleus taeniae
*Subpallium
**striatum
***lateral
***medial
**pallidum
***globus pallidus or dorsal pallidum
***ventral pallidum

External links

* [http://www.avianbrain.org/new_terminology.html New terminology]
* [http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/cobb.html Stanley Cobb]