PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Amiez, Céline
AU  - Kostopoulos, Penelope
AU  - Champod, Anne-Sophie
AU  - Petrides, Michael
TI  - Local Morphology Predicts Functional Organization of the Dorsal Premotor Region in the Human Brain
AID  - 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4739-05.2006
DP  - 2006 Mar 08
TA  - The Journal of Neuroscience
PG  - 2724--2731
VI  - 26
IP  - 10
4099  - http://www.jneurosci.org/content/26/10/2724.short
4100  - http://www.jneurosci.org/content/26/10/2724.full
SO  - J. Neurosci.2006 Mar 08; 26
AB  - A confusing picture of the functional organization of the dorsal premotor region of the human brain emerged when functional neuroimaging studies that either examined visuomotor hand conditional activity or attempted to localize the human frontal eye field reported activity increases at the same general location, namely the junction of the superior precentral sulcus with the superior frontal sulcus. The present functional magnetic resonance imaging study examined visuomotor hand conditional activity and the locus of the frontal eye field as defined by a standard task, on a subject-by-subject basis, to clarify their location and reveal relationships between the pattern of local morphology and functional activity. The results demonstrate that visuomotor hand conditional activity and the frontal eye field lie within distinct parts of the superior precentral sulcus, revealing an organization of the human premotor cortex consistent with that observed in experimental studies in the monkey.