TY - JOUR AU - Fischl, B AU - Rajendran, N. AU - Busa, E. AU - Augustinack, J. AU - Hinds, O. AU - Yeo, T. AU - Mohlberg, H. AU - Amunts, K. AU - Zilles, K. TI - Cortical Folding Patterns and Predicting Cytoarchitecture JO - Cerebral cortex VL - 18 SN - 1047-3211 CY - Oxford PB - Oxford Univ. Press M1 - PreJuSER-62934 SP - 1973 - 1980 PY - 2008 N1 - Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012 AB - The human cerebral cortex is made up of a mosaic of structural areas, frequently referred to as Brodmann areas (BAs). Despite the widespread use of cortical folding patterns to perform ad hoc estimations of the locations of the BAs, little is understood regarding 1) how variable the position of a given BA is with respect to the folds, 2) whether the location of some BAs is more variable than others, and 3) whether the variability is related to the level of a BA in a putative cortical hierarchy. We use whole-brain histology of 10 postmortem human brains and surface-based analysis to test how well the folds predict the locations of the BAs. We show that higher order cortical areas exhibit more variability than primary and secondary areas and that the folds are much better predictors of the BAs than had been previously thought. These results further highlight the significance of cortical folding patterns and suggest a common mechanism for the development of the folds and the cytoarchitectonic fields. KW - Brain Mapping: methods KW - Cerebral Cortex: cytology KW - Cerebral Cortex: physiology KW - Humans KW - Predictive Value of Tests KW - J (WoSType) LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 C6 - pmid:18079129 C2 - pmc:PMC2474454 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000257787300023 DO - DOI:10.1093/cercor/bhm225 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/62934 ER -