ReviewNeuropsychologia2017
A brief comparative review of primate posterior parietal cortex: A novel hypothesis on the human toolmaker.
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- The self-in-the-world map emerged in the primate brain as a basis for Homo sapiens abilities.Development, growth & differentiation · 2024Review
- Selective activations and functional connectivities to the sight of faces, scenes, body parts and tools in visual and non-visual cortical regions leading to the human hippocampus.Brain structure & function · 2024Article
- Human brain representations of internally generated outcomes of approximate calculation revealed by ultra-high-field brain imaging.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Thalamic connections of the caudal part of the posterior parietal cortex differ from the rostral part in galagos (Otolemur garnettii).The Journal of comparative neurology · 2023Article
- Different roles of response covariability and its attentional modulation in the sensory cortex and posterior parietal cortex.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Brain intrinsic connection patterns underlying tool processing in human adults are present in neonates and not in macaques.NeuroImage · 2022Article
- Resting-state theta activity is linked to information content-specific coding levels during response inhibition.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Effects of Online Single Pulse Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Prefrontal and Parietal Cortices in Deceptive Processing: A Preliminary Study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Distinct auditory and visual tool regions with multisensory response properties in human parietal cortex.Progress in neurobiology · 2020Article
- Dynamic pulvino-cortical interactions in the primate attention network.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2020Review
- Wide-field retinotopy reveals a new visuotopic cluster in macaque posterior parietal cortex.Brain structure & function · 2020Article
- Visual experiences during letter production contribute to the development of the neural systems supporting letter perception.Developmental science · 2020Article
- Faster recognition of graspable targets defined by orientation in a visual search task.Experimental brain research · 2020Article
- The visual word form area (VWFA) is part of both language and attention circuitry.Nature communications · 2019Article
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Abstract
The primate visual system contains two major cortical pathways: a ventral-temporal pathway that has been associated with object processing and recognition, and a dorsal-parietal pathway that has been associated with spatial processing and action guidance. Our understanding of the role of the dorsal pathway, in particular, has greatly evolved within the framework of the two-pathway hypothesis since its original conception. Here, we present a comparative review of the primate dorsal pathway in humans and monkeys based on electrophysiological, neuroimaging, neuropsychological, and neuroanatomical studies. We consider similarities and differences across species in terms of the topographic representation of visual space; specificity for eye, reaching, or grasping movements; multi-modal response properties; and the representation of objects and tools. We also review the relative anatomical location of functionally- and topographically-defined regions of the posterior parietal cortex. An emerging theme from this comparative analysis is that non-spatial information is represented to a greater degree, and with increased complexity, in the human dorsal visual system. We propose that non-spatial information in the primate parietal cortex contributes to the perception-to-action system aimed at manipulating objects in peripersonal space. In humans, this network has expanded in multiple ways, including the development of a dorsal object vision system mirroring the complexity of the ventral stream, the integration of object information with parietal working memory systems, and the emergence of tool-specific object representations in the anterior intraparietal sulcus and regions of the inferior parietal lobe. We propose that these evolutionary changes have enabled the emergence of human-specific behaviors, such as the sophisticated use of tools.
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