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Visual field map clusters in human frontoparietal cortex
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Abstract
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The visual neurosciences have made enormous progress in recent decades, in part because of the ability to drive visual areas by their sensory inputs, allowing researchers to define visual areas reliably across individuals and across species. Similar strategies for parcellating higher order cortex have proven elusive. Here, using a novel experimental task and nonlinear population receptive field modeling, we map and characterize the topographic organization of several regions in human frontoparietal cortex. We discover representations of both polar angle and eccentricity that are organized into clusters, similar to visual cortex, where multiple gradients of polar angle of the contralateral visual field share a confluent fovea. This is striking because neural activity in frontoparietal cortex is believed to reflect higher-order cognitive functions rather than external sensory processing. Perhaps the spatial topography in frontoparietal cortex parallels the retinotopic organization of sensory cortex to enable an efficient interface between perception and higher-order cognitive processes. Critically, these visual maps constitute well-defined anatomical units that future studies of frontoparietal cortex can reliably target.
Keywords:
LATERAL INTRAPARIETAL AREA
POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX
SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS
SPATIAL WORKING-MEMORY
FRONTAL EYE FIELDS
PREFRONTAL CORTEX
RETINOTOPIC ORGANIZATION
TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS
OCCIPITAL CORTEX
CEREBRAL-CORTEX