Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 24, Issue 5 , Pages 583-590 , June 2006

Anatomical correlates of the functional organization in the human occipitotemporal cortex

  • Mina Kim

      Affiliations

    • Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
    • ,
  • Mathieu Ducros

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie et Nouvelles Microscopies, ESPCI-INSERM EPI 00-02 Paris, France
    • ,
  • Thomas Carlson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Vision Sciences Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    • Department of Psychonomics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Itamar Ronen

      Affiliations

    • Center for Biomedical Imaging (CBI), Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University school of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
    • ,
  • Sheng He

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
    • ,
  • Kamil Ugurbil

      Affiliations

    • Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
    • ,
  • Dae-Shik Kim

      Affiliations

    • Center for Biomedical Imaging (CBI), Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University school of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 617 414 2361; fax: +1 617 414 2362.

Received 30 June 2005 ,Accepted 9 December 2005.

References 

  1. Payne BR, Peters A. The cat primary visual cortex. San Diego: Academic Press; 2002;
  2. Felleman DJ, Van Essen DC. Distributed hierarchical processing in the primate cerebral cortex. Cereb Cortex. 1991;1(1):1–47
  3. Tootell RB, Dale AM, Sereno MI, Malach R. New images from human visual cortex. Trends Neurosci. 1996;19(11):481–489
  4. Ungerleider LG, Haxby JV. ‘What’ and ‘where’ in the human brain. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 1994;4(2):157–165
  5. Goodale MA, Milner AD. Separate visual pathways for perception and action. Trends Neurosci. 1992;20–25
  6. Malach R, Levy I, Hasson U. The topography of high-order human object areas. Trends Cogn Sci. 2002;6(4):176–184
  7. Grill-Spector K. The neural basis of object perception. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2003;13(2):159–166
  8. Kanwisher N, McDermott J, Chun MM. The fusiform face area: a module in human extrastriate cortex specialized for face perception. J Neurosci. 1997;17(11):4302–4311
  9. Tanaka K, Saito H, Fukada Y, Moriya M. Coding visual images of objects in the inferotemporal cortex of the macaque monkey. J Neurophysiol. 1991;66(1):170–189
  10. Desimone R, Albright TD, Gross CG, Bruce C. Stimulus-selective properties of inferior temporal neurons in the macaque. J Neurosci. 1984;4(8):2051–2062
  11. Epstein R, Kanwisher N. A cortical representation of the local visual environment. Nature. 1998;392(6676):598–601
  12. Whitlock DG, Nauta WJH. Subcortical projections from temporal neocortex in Macaca mulatta. J Comp Neurol. 1956;106:183–212
  13. Galuske RA, Schlote W, Bratzke H, Singer W. Interhemispheric asymmetries of the modular structure in human temporal cortex. Science. 2000;289(5486):1946–1949
  14. Katz LC, Iarovici DM. Green fluorescent latex microspheres: a new retrograde tracer. Neuroscience. 1990;34(2):511–520
  15. Werring DJ, Clark CA, Parker GJ, Miller DH, Thompson AJ, Barker GJ. A direct demonstration of both structure and function in the visual system: combining diffusion tensor imaging with functional magnetic resonance imaging. Neuroimage. 1999;9(3):352–361
  16. Toosy AT, Ciccarelli O, Parker GJ, Wheeler-Kingshott CA, Miller DH, Thompson AJ. Characterizing function–structure relationships in the human visual system with functional MRI and diffusion tensor imaging. Neuroimage. 2004;21(4):1452–1463
  17. Parker GJ, Haroon HA, Wheeler-Kingshott CA. A framework for a streamline-based probabilistic index of connectivity (PICo) using a structural interpretation of MRI diffusion measurements. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2003;18(2):242–254
  18. Basser PJ, Mattiello J, LeBihan D. MR diffusion tensor spectroscopy and imaging. Biophys J. 1994;66(1):259–267
  19. Conturo TE, Lori NF, Cull TS, Akbudak E, Snyder AZ, Shimony JS, et al. Tracking neuronal fiber pathways in the living human brain. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999;96(18):10422–10427
  20. Mori S, Crain BJ, Chacko VP, van Zijl PC. Three-dimensional tracking of axonal projections in the brain by magnetic resonance imaging. Ann Neurol. 1999;45(2):265–269
  21. Kim DS, Kim M, Ronen I, Formisano E, Kim KH, Ugurbil K, et al. In vivo mapping of functional domains and axonal connectivity in cat visual cortex using magnetic resonance imaging. Magn Reson Imaging. 2003;21(10):1131–1140
  22. Brainard DH. The psychophysics toolbox. Spat Vis. 1997;10(4):433–436
  23. Blanz V, Vetter T. A morphable model for synthesis of 3D faces. In: In Computer Graphics Proceedings SIGGRAPH. Los Angeles.. 1999;
  24. Basser PJ, Pajevic S, Pierpaoli C, Duda J, Aldroubi A. In vivo fiber tractography using DT-MRI data. Magn Reson Med. 2000;44(4):625–632
  25. Jones DK. Determining and visualizing uncertainty in estimates of fiber orientation from diffusion tensor MRI. Magn Reson Med. 2003;49(1):7–12
  26. Basser PJ, Pajevic S. Statistical artifacts in diffusion tensor MRI (DT-MRI) caused by background noise. Magn Reson Med. 2000;44(1):41–50
  27. Heim S, Hahn K, Samann PG, Fahrmeir L, Auer DP. Assessing DTI data quality using bootstrap analysis. Magn Reson Med. 2004;52(3):582–589
  28. Huk AC, Dougherty RF, Heeger DJ. Retinotopy and functional subdivision of human areas MT and MST. J Neurosci. 2002;22(16):7195–7205
  29. Ugurbil K, Toth L, Kim DS. How accurate is magnetic resonance imaging of brain function?. Trends Neurosci. 2003;26(2):108–114
  30. Logothetis NK, Pauls J, Augath M, Trinath T, Oeltermann A. Neurophysiological investigation of the basis of the fMRI signal. Nature. 2001;412(6843):150–157
  31. Xu D, Mori S, Solaiyappan M, van Zijl PC, Davatzikos C. A framework for callosal fiber distribution analysis. Neuroimage. 2002;17(3):1131–1143
  32. Stieltjes B, Kaufmann WE, van Zijl PC, Fredericksen K, Pearlson GD, Solaiyappan M, et al. Diffusion tensor imaging and axonal tracking in the human brainstem. Neuroimage. 2001;14(3):723–735
  33. Pautler RG, Silva AC, Koretsky AP. In vivo neuronal tract tracing using manganese-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging. Magn Reson Med. 1998;40(5):740–748
  34. Lin CP, Tseng WY, Cheng HC, Chen JH. Validation of diffusion tensor magnetic resonance axonal fiber imaging with registered manganese-enhanced optic tracts. Neuroimage. 2001;14(5):1035–1047
  35. Rockland KS, Pandya DN. Cortical connections of the occipital lobe in the rhesus monkey: interconnections between areas 17, 18, 19 and the superior temporal sulcus. Brain Res. 1981;212(2):249–270
  36. Van Essen DC, Anderson CH, Felleman DJ. Information processing in the primate visual system: an integrated systems perspective. Science. 1992;255(5043):419–423
  37. Maunsell JH, van Essen DC. The connections of the middle temporal visual area (MT) and their relationship to a cortical hierarchy in the macaque monkey. J Neurosci. 1983;3(12):2563–2586

PII: S0730-725X(05)00383-8

doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2005.12.005

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 24, Issue 5 , Pages 583-590 , June 2006

Article Tools

* Image Usage & Resolution