ReviewNeuroImage2018
Topographic organization of the cerebral cortex and brain cartography.
Review in NeuroImage, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 88 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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88 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Meta-analysis of neural systems underlying placebo analgesia from individual participant fMRI data.Nature communications · 2021Pooled it
- Neural signatures of prosocial behaviors.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2020Pooled it
- The emerging neuroscience of social punishment: Meta-analytic evidence.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Human Pregenual Anterior Cingulate Cortex: Structural, Functional, and Connectional Heterogeneity.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2019Pooled it
- Functional changes in prefrontal cortex following frequency-specific training.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
- Functional harmonics reveal multi-dimensional basis functions underlying cortical organization.Cell reports · 2021Trial
- Hierarchical disruption of lateral prefrontal cortex gradients in cognitive aging.GeroScience · 2026Article
- Selectivity for high-level language processing is highly localized in individual brains.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Macroscale Gradient-Informed Neural Oscillation Topography in Parkinson's Disease.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2026Article
- Anatomic & functional brain atlases: connecting functional flexibility with fixed infrastructure.Brain structure & function · 2026Review
- Abnormal resting-state brain network dynamics in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- TopoNets: High performing vision and language models with brain-like topography.... International Conference on Learning Representations · 2025Article
- Rootlets Hierarchical Principal Component Analysis for Revealing Nested Dependencies in Hierarchical Data.Mathematics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Structure-function relationships across scales: implications for atlases.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Topographic organization of bidirectional connections between the cingulate region (infralimbic area and anterior cingulate area, dorsal part) and the interbrain (diencephalon) of the adult male rat.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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- A cortical surface template for human neuroscience.Nature methods · 2024Article
- Effects of connectivity hyperalignment (CHA) on estimated brain network properties: from coarse-scale to fine-scale.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Predicting Cognitive Functioning for Patients with a High-Grade Glioma: Evaluating Different Representations of Tumor Location in a Common Space.Neuroinformatics · 2024Article
- Deciphering the functional specialization of whole-brain spatiomolecular gradients in the adult brain.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
28 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
One of the most specific but also challenging properties of the brain is its topographic organization into distinct modules or cortical areas. In this paper, we first review the concept of topographic organization and its historical development. Next, we provide a critical discussion of the current definition of what constitutes a cortical area, why the concept has been so central to the field of neuroimaging and the challenges that arise from this view. A key aspect in this discussion is the issue of spatial scale and hierarchy in the brain. Focusing on in-vivo brain parcellation as a rapidly expanding field of research, we highlight potential limitations of the classical concept of cortical areas in the context of multi-modal parcellation and propose a revised interpretation of cortical areas building on the concept of neurobiological atoms that may be aggregated into larger units within and across modalities. We conclude by presenting an outlook on the implication of this revised concept for future mapping studies and raise some open questions in the context of brain parcellation.
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