 VImL also receives axons from the vestibulum and from the spinothalamic tract.It is organized according to a somatotopic map grossly analogous to that of VPC.The cortical target of the VImL thalamocortical neurons is principally the primary motor cortex (prerolandic) (Schell and Strick, 1984, Orioli and Strick, 1989) .