title: Dissociations within association cortex.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5C2, Canada.
authors.forename: Jody
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Culham
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001931:Brain Mapping; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*