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Surface-based and probabilistic atlases of primate cerebral cortexDavid C Van Essen
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Neuron 56:209-25. 2007..Linking different brain atlases to one another and to online databases containing a growing body of neuroimaging data will enable powerful forms of data mining that accelerate discovery and improve research efficiency...
Symmetry of cortical folding abnormalities in Williams syndrome revealed by surface-based analysesDavid C Van Essen
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
J Neurosci 26:5470-83. 2006..These findings provide insights regarding possible developmental mechanisms that give rise to folding abnormalities and to the spectrum of behavioral characteristics associated with WS...
Corticocortical and thalamocortical information flow in the primate visual systemDavid C Van Essen
Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Prog Brain Res 149:173-85. 2005..This chapter evaluates current hypotheses and evidence relating to the interaction between thalamocortical and corticocortical circuitry in the dynamic regulation of information flow...
A Population-Average, Landmark- and Surface-based (PALS) atlas of human cerebral cortexDavid C Van Essen
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S Euclid Ave, Box 8108, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Neuroimage 28:635-62. 2005..All data sets in the PALS-B12 atlas are accessible via the SumsDB database for online and offline visualization and analysis...
On navigating the human cerebral cortex: response to 'in praise of tedious anatomy'David C Van Essen
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
Neuroimage 37:1050-4; discussion 1066-8. 2007..It also includes information about the actual differences between various registration strategies and introduces a new strategy for converting neuroimaging data to a standard stereotaxic space...
Lost in localization--but found with foci?!David C Van Essen
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University in St Louis, 660 S Euclid Avenue, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Neuroimage 48:14-7. 2009....
Temporal dynamics of 2D and 3D shape representation in macaque visual area V4Jay Hegdé
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
Vis Neurosci 23:749-63. 2006..Together with earlier results, these findings provide evidence for a distributed process of coarse-to-fine representation of shape stimuli in the visual cortex...
Role of primate visual area V4 in the processing of 3-D shape characteristics defined by disparityJay Hegdé
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
J Neurophysiol 94:2856-66. 2005..Nonetheless, V4 cells likely play an important role in the processing of 3-D shape characteristics defined by disparity as a part of a distributed network...
Surface-based approaches to spatial localization and registration in primate cerebral cortexDavid C Van Essen
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
Neuroimage 23:S97-107. 2004....
Defining functional areas in individual human brains using resting functional connectivity MRIAlexander L Cohen
Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Neuroimage 41:45-57. 2008..Our approach reliably produces maps of bounded regions appropriate in size and number for putative functional areas. These findings will hopefully stimulate further methodological refinements and validations...
Peaked encoding of relative luminance in macaque areas V1 and V2Xinmiao Peng
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S. Euclid Ave, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
J Neurophysiol 93:1620-32. 2005..Many cells, including the gray-preferring neurons, exhibited strong color preferences, suggesting a role of luminance-sensitive cells in encoding information in three-dimensional color space...
Stimulus dependence of disparity coding in primate visual area V4Jay Hegdé
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Box 8108, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
J Neurophysiol 93:620-6. 2005....
Temporal dynamics of shape analysis in macaque visual area V2Jay Hegdé
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Box 8108, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
J Neurophysiol 92:3030-42. 2004..Our results indicate that the information about stimulus shape evolves dynamically and relatively rapidly in V2 during static visual stimulation in ways that may contribute to form discrimination...
Automated landmark identification for human cortical surface-based registrationAlan Anticevic
Department of Psychology, Washington University in St Louis, USA
Neuroimage 59:2539-47. 2012..ALI largely circumvents human error and bias and enables high throughput analysis of large neuroimaging datasets for inter-subject registration to an atlas...
Neurons in monkey visual area V2 encode combinations of orientationsAkiyuki Anzai
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
Nat Neurosci 10:1313-21. 2007..These results indicate that V2 neurons could play an important role in analyzing contours and textures and could provide useful cues for surface segmentation...
A comparative study of shape representation in macaque visual areas v2 and v4Jay Hegdé
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA
Cereb Cortex 17:1100-16. 2007..Commonalities of visual shape representation across hierarchical levels may reflect the replication of neural circuits used in generating complex shape representations at multiple spatial scales...
Cortical parcellations of the macaque monkey analyzed on surface-based atlasesDavid C Van Essen
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Cereb Cortex 22:2227-40. 2012..Based on a composite parcellation derived from 3 major sources, the total number of macaque neocortical and transitional cortical areas is estimated to be about 130-140 in each hemisphere...
Strategies of shape representation in macaque visual area V2Jay Hegdé
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Vis Neurosci 20:313-28. 2003..This may reflect an efficient strategy of representing cues for image segmentation and object shape using finite neuronal resources...
The human brain is intrinsically organized into dynamic, anticorrelated functional networksMichael D Fox
Department of Radiology, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:9673-8. 2005..We suggest that both task-driven neuronal responses and behavior are reflections of this dynamic, ongoing, functional organization of the brain...
Parcellations and hemispheric asymmetries of human cerebral cortex analyzed on surface-based atlasesDavid C Van Essen
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Cereb Cortex 22:2241-62. 2012..The total number of human neocortical areas is estimated to be ∼150 to 200 areas per hemisphere, which is modestly larger than a recent estimate for the macaque...
Cortical cartography and Caret softwareDavid C Van Essen
Washington University School of Medicine, Anatomy and Neurobiology, 660 S Euclid Avenue, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Neuroimage 62:757-64. 2012..g., fMRI activation maps, cortical parcellations, areal boundaries), and it has other features that facilitate the analysis and visualization of complex neuroimaging datasets...
Persistence and brain circuitryDebra A Gusnard
Department of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:3479-84. 2003..These findings represent a fresh approach to linking normal individual differences in personality and behavior to specific neuronal structures and subsystems...
Comparing surface-based and volume-based analyses of functional neuroimaging data in patients with schizophreniaAlan Anticevic
Department of Psychology, Washington University in St Louis, MO 63130, USA
Neuroimage 41:835-48. 2008..These results indicate that SBR provides significant advantages over affine VBR when analyzing cortical fMRI activations. Furthermore, these improvements can be even greater in disorders that have associated structural abnormalities...
Towards a quantitative, probabilistic neuroanatomy of cerebral cortexDavid C Van Essen
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University, School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
Cortex 40:211-2. 2004
Mapping human cortical areas in vivo based on myelin content as revealed by T1- and T2-weighted MRIMatthew F Glasser
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
J Neurosci 31:11597-616. 2011....
Scene segmentation and attention in primate cortical areas V1 and V2Daniel S Marcus
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
J Neurophysiol 88:2648-58. 2002..This process occurs independent of directed visual attention...
Surface-based atlases of cerebellar cortex in the human, macaque, and mouseDavid C Van Essen
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 978:468-79. 2002..These cerebellar atlases, along with associated software for visualization and for mapping experimental data onto the atlas, are freely available to the neuroscience community (see http:/brainmap.wustl.edu)...
Functional organization of human intraparietal and frontal cortex for attending, looking, and pointingSerguei V Astafiev
Washington U, St Louis, MO
J Neurosci 23:4689-99. 2003..In contrast, large interspecies differences were noted in the topography of frontal areas...
Microstructural changes of the baboon cerebral cortex during gestational development reflected in magnetic resonance imaging diffusion anisotropyChristopher D Kroenke
Oregon National Primate Research Center, and Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239, USA
J Neurosci 27:12506-15. 2007..The approach presented here can be applied in vivo to the study of normal brain development and its disruption in human infants and experimental animal models...
Windows on the brain: the emerging role of atlases and databases in neuroscienceDavid C Van Essen
Washington U, St Louis, MO
Curr Opin Neurobiol 12:574-9. 2002..Recent progress towards realizing this potential includes the establishment of probabilistic atlases, surface-based atlases and associated databases, combined with improvements in visualization capabilities and internet access...
Stereopsis activates V3A and caudal intraparietal areas in macaques and humansDoris Y Tsao
Massachusetts General Hospital, NMR Center, Athinoula A Martinos Center, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA
Neuron 39:555-68. 2003..Thus, in both primate species a small cluster of areas at the parieto-occipital junction appears to be specialized for stereopsis...
Cortical folding abnormalities in autism revealed by surface-based morphometryChristine Wu Nordahl
The Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
J Neurosci 27:11725-35. 2007..These findings are consistent with evidence of an altered trajectory of early brain development in autism, and they identify several regions that may have abnormal patterns of connectivity in individuals with autism...
