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impulses from the cranial nerves, enter the locality which 

 is called the internal capsule. 



In this region it is the occipital end of the capsule 

 which is most completely occupied by the afferent 



F- 



FlG. 54. A frontal section of a human hemisphere, showing the 

 internal capsule. C, a mass of fibres passing between Nc and 

 OT on the one hand, and Pt., Gp', and Gp" on the other. 

 Natural size (Sherrington, Foster's Physiology] ; NS, Caudate 

 nucleus ; OT, optic thalamus ; Gp", Gp', two parts of the 

 globus pallidus ; Pt, putamen. 



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