title: Many areas in the human brain respond to visual motion.
abstract: 1. The regions of the human brain responsive to motion were mapped using the H2(15)O position emission tomography (PET) activation technique and compared by viewing a moving random dot pattern with a stationary dot pattern. The stimulus was optimized in dot density and 3 degrees in diameter. 2. In addition to bilateral foci at the border between Brodmann areas 19 and 37, a V1/V2 focus and a focus in the cuneus reported earlier, we observed activations in other visual areas (lower BA 19 and the parieto-occipital fissure) in the cerebellum and in two other, presumed vestibular areas, the posterior bank of lateral sulcus and at the border of BA 2/40. 3. Homologies between monkey and human cortex are discussed.
authors: Laboratorium voor Neuro-en Psychofysiologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Dupont
authors: G A
authors: GA
authors: Orban
authors: B
authors: B
authors: De Bruyn
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Verbruggen
authors: L
authors: L
authors: Mortelmans
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000502:physiology; D004193:Discrimination Learning / Q000502:physiology; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000502:physiology; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000502:physiology; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D013045:Species Specificity; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed; D014726:Vestibular Nuclei / Q000502:physiology; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000502:physiology*