Polarized Structure Functions and the Nucleon Spin

The link between the light-cone momentum distributions of constituent quark models and their corresponding parton distributions is used to study the polarized structure functions g 1 of proton and neutron. The formalism allows to analyze the effects of the structure of the quark model wave function and thus we discuss the SU (6) breaking mechanism associated with the One Gluon Exchange and large D-state admixtures originated in pionic models. We analyze the contribution to these structure functions of the gluon polarization arising from the anomaly.