The organization of dorsal frontal cortex in humans and macaques.
The human dorsal frontal cortex has been associated with the most sophisticated aspects of cognition, including those that are thought to be especially refined in humans. Here we used diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) and functional MRI (fMRI) in humans and macaques to infer and...
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| author | Sallet, J Mars, R Noonan, M Neubert, F Jbabdi, S O'Reilly, J Filippini, N Thomas, A Rushworth, M |
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| description | The human dorsal frontal cortex has been associated with the most sophisticated aspects of cognition, including those that are thought to be especially refined in humans. Here we used diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) and functional MRI (fMRI) in humans and macaques to infer and compare the organization of dorsal frontal cortex in the two species. Using DW-MRI tractography-based parcellation, we identified 10 dorsal frontal regions lying between the human inferior frontal sulcus and cingulate cortex. Patterns of functional coupling between each area and the rest of the brain were then estimated with fMRI and compared with functional coupling patterns in macaques. Areas in human medial frontal cortex, including areas associated with high-level social cognitive processes such as theory of mind, showed a surprising degree of similarity in their functional coupling patterns with the frontal pole, medial prefrontal, and dorsal prefrontal convexity in the macaque. We failed to find evidence for "new" regions in human medial frontal cortex. On the lateral surface, comparison of functional coupling patterns suggested correspondences in anatomical organization distinct from those that are widely assumed. A human region sometimes referred to as lateral frontal pole more closely resembled area 46, rather than the frontal pole, of the macaque. Overall the pattern of results suggest important similarities in frontal cortex organization in humans and other primates, even in the case of regions thought to carry out uniquely human functions. The patterns of interspecies correspondences are not, however, always those that are widely assumed. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:10534b08-661d-41c2-b96e-99e7c4ca75982022-03-26T09:55:56ZThe organization of dorsal frontal cortex in humans and macaques.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:10534b08-661d-41c2-b96e-99e7c4ca7598EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2013Sallet, JMars, RNoonan, MNeubert, FJbabdi, SO'Reilly, JFilippini, NThomas, ARushworth, MThe human dorsal frontal cortex has been associated with the most sophisticated aspects of cognition, including those that are thought to be especially refined in humans. Here we used diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) and functional MRI (fMRI) in humans and macaques to infer and compare the organization of dorsal frontal cortex in the two species. Using DW-MRI tractography-based parcellation, we identified 10 dorsal frontal regions lying between the human inferior frontal sulcus and cingulate cortex. Patterns of functional coupling between each area and the rest of the brain were then estimated with fMRI and compared with functional coupling patterns in macaques. Areas in human medial frontal cortex, including areas associated with high-level social cognitive processes such as theory of mind, showed a surprising degree of similarity in their functional coupling patterns with the frontal pole, medial prefrontal, and dorsal prefrontal convexity in the macaque. We failed to find evidence for "new" regions in human medial frontal cortex. On the lateral surface, comparison of functional coupling patterns suggested correspondences in anatomical organization distinct from those that are widely assumed. A human region sometimes referred to as lateral frontal pole more closely resembled area 46, rather than the frontal pole, of the macaque. Overall the pattern of results suggest important similarities in frontal cortex organization in humans and other primates, even in the case of regions thought to carry out uniquely human functions. The patterns of interspecies correspondences are not, however, always those that are widely assumed. |
| spellingShingle | Sallet, J Mars, R Noonan, M Neubert, F Jbabdi, S O'Reilly, J Filippini, N Thomas, A Rushworth, M The organization of dorsal frontal cortex in humans and macaques. |
| title | The organization of dorsal frontal cortex in humans and macaques. |
| title_full | The organization of dorsal frontal cortex in humans and macaques. |
| title_fullStr | The organization of dorsal frontal cortex in humans and macaques. |
| title_full_unstemmed | The organization of dorsal frontal cortex in humans and macaques. |
| title_short | The organization of dorsal frontal cortex in humans and macaques. |
| title_sort | organization of dorsal frontal cortex in humans and macaques |
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