Neuroimaging of cognitive functions in human parietal cortex

Functional neuroimaging has proven highly valuable in mapping human sensory regions, particularly visual areas in occipital cortex. Recent evidence suggests that human parietal cortex may also consist of numerous specialized subregions similar to those reported in neurophysiological studies of non-h...

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Published in:Current Opinion in Neurobiology 2001-04, Vol.11 (2), p.157-163
Main Authors: Culham, Jody C, Kanwisher, Nancy G
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
association cortex
attention
Attention - physiology
Brain Mapping
Cognition - physiology
cortex
eye movements
Eye Movements - physiology
fMRI
Forecasting
Haplorhini
Humans
neuroimaging
Parietal Lobe - physiology
parital
Species Specificity
visuomotor cotrol
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Summary:Functional neuroimaging has proven highly valuable in mapping human sensory regions, particularly visual areas in occipital cortex. Recent evidence suggests that human parietal cortex may also consist of numerous specialized subregions similar to those reported in neurophysiological studies of non-human primates. However, parietal activation generalizes across a wide variety of cognitive tasks and the extension of human brain mapping into higher-order ‘association cortex’ may prove to be a challenge.
ISSN:0959-4388
1873-6882
DOI:10.1016/S0959-4388(00)00191-4