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

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

Avian pallium

A 2002 conference at Duke University (Avian Brain Nomenclature Consortium) established a standard nomenclature for describing the avian pallium as follows:

Avian pallium

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

Notable researchers

Stanley Cobb

Onur Güntürkün

Andrew Iwaniuk

See also

Bird intelligence

Animal intelligence

References

External links

Bird neuroanatomy

Avian pallium