Dissociations within association cortex.
The parietal lobes of nonhuman primates have been well characterized by single neuron recordings, yet clear partitioning of the human parietal lobes has not been clearly demonstrated. An elegant new fMRI study by Simon and colleagues (this issue of Neuron) suggests that parietal cortex does indeed contain dissociable subregions, each specialized for a particular visuomotor or cognitive function.
Culham
Jody
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Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5C2, Canada.
D000818:Animals; D001931:Brain Mapping; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*