“…In some mammals, such as cats and monkeys, the claustrum apparently has distinct visual, sensorimotor, and auditory sectors based on topographically organized connections with the corresponding parts of the cerebral cortex [Druga, 2014]. In rats, the topography of such partial connections is coarse, with marked overlaps [Druga, 2014]. The insula receives afferents from some sensory thalamic nuclei (particularly pain, visceroceptive, and gustatory inputs), is reciprocally connected with the amygdala as well as with limbic and association cortical areas, and is implicated in widely different functions ranging from pain perception and speech production to the processing of social distaste emotions [Lundy and Norgren, 2004;Whitehead, 2012;Nieuwenhuys, 2012;Smythies et al, 2014].…”