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Brain Research Reviews 26 Ž1998. 87–105 Structural divisions and functional fields in the human cerebral cortex Per E. Roland a a,) , Karl Zilles 1 b DiÕision of Human Brain Research, Department of Neuroscience, Doktorsringen 12, The Karolinska Institute, S-171 77 Stockholm Sweden b C and O Vogt, Brain Research Institute, Heinrich Heine UniÕersity, D-4000, Dusseldorf 1 Germany ¨ Abstract The question of what is a cortical area needs a thorough definition of borders both in the microstructural and the functional domains. Microstructural parcellation of the human cerebral cortex should be made on multiple criteria based on quantitative measurements of microstructural variables, such as neuron densities, neurotransmitter receptor densities, enzyme densities, etc. Because of the inter-individual variations of extent and topography of microstructurally defined areas, the final microstructurally defined areas appear as population maps. In the functional domain, columns, patches and blobs signifying synaptically active parts of the cortex appear as cortical functional fields. These fields are the largest functional entities of the cerebral cortex according to the cortical field hypothesis. In its strong version, the cortical field hypothesis postulates that all neurons and synapses within the fields perform a co-operative computation. A number of such fields together provide the functional contribution of the cerebral cortex. The functional parcellation of the human cerebral cortex must be based on field population maps, which after intersection analysis appear as functional domains. The major structural–functional hypothesis to be examined is whether these functional domains are equi-territorial to the microstructurally defined meta-maps. The cortical hypothesis predicts that, if two brain tasks make use of one or several identical or largely overlapping fields, they cannot be performed simultaneously without errors or increases in latency. Evidence for such interference is presented. This evidence represents a restriction in the parallel processing of the human brain. In the posterior part of the brain not only visual cortical areas may qualify for parallel processing, but also the somatosensory cortices appear to have separate functional streams for the detection of microgeometry and macrogeometry. q 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Human cerebral cortex; Computer; Field; Parallel Contents 1. Introduction . ....................................................................... 88 2. Microstructural organisation of the cerebral cortex ................................................... 88 3. Population maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1. Visual area V2 described as a population map ................................................... ................................................... 90 91 4. Functional parcellation of the cortex, the cortical field activation hypothesis . 4.1. Population maps of functional fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.2. Multiple fields account for all types of brain tasks, examples . . . . . . ..................................... ..................................... ..................................... 91 94 94 ........................................................... ........................................................... 95 96 ............................ 97 ....................................... 99 ................................................................ 99 5. Intersection analysis . . . . . . . . 5.1. Intersection analysis, examples 6. Another example of intersection analysis of short term and long term memory representations 7. Formulation of the structural-functional problem in cortical parcellation . 8. The interference principle . 9. Parallel processing in the human brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.1. A case for parallel processing in the somatosensory cortex ) 1 ............................................ ............................................ Corresponding author. Fax: q46 Ž8. 309045; E-mail: [email protected] Published on the World Wide Web on 20 February 1998. 0165-0173r98r$19.00 q 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. PII S 0 1 6 5 - 0 1 7 3 Ž 9 7 . 0 0 0 5 8 - 1 100 100 P.E. Roland, K. Zillesr Brain Research ReÕiews 26 (1998) 87–105 88 10. Conclusions ....................................................................... Acknowledgements . References 101 ..................................................................... 102 .......................................................................... 102 1. Introduction This paper presents some ideas on how the cerebral cortex of man could be parcelled based on structural and functional criteria. Any parcellation is based on an assumption of what is a cortical area. Since cortical areas are thought to reflect the principle of organization of the cerebral cortex, the issue of parcelling the cortex is also fundamental for the organization of the cerebral cortex. The question of what is a cortical area needs several qualifications. Is it possible to define an area by one single criterion, for example cytoarchitectonics? What is a border of a cortical area? If cortical areas have borders how are these borders defined? Here we suggest the approach that quantitative criteria, that is criteria based on measurements of microstructure and functional activations of the human brain should be used to define and delimit areas. The microstructure of the human cerebral cortex is defined by more than a single structural modality. It consists of Ž1. the cytoarchitecture, the packing density and laminar distribution of pyramidal and non-pyramidal neurons; Ž2. the myeloarchitecture, i.e. the packing density and laminar distribution of myelinated fibers; Ž3. the receptor architecture, the density of neurotransmitter receptors in fmolrmg protein and laminar distribution of different receptor types; Ž4. the density of reuptake sites on nerve terminals for different neurotransmitters; Ž5. distribution of other neurochemical variables such as the densities of enzymes, specific structural proteins, etc.; Ž6. the architecture of synapses. Since especially the densities of receptors, reuptake sites and enzymes is modifiable to some extent even under non-pathological conditions, this illustrates that the distinction between structure and function is fuzzy. The measurements of microstructural variables should be taken in vivo as well as in postmortem brains. By functional activations is meant immediate biochemical changes and changes in ion channels which accompany synaptic activity and are locally resulting in changes in the regional cerebral blood flow ŽrCBF., regional cerebral metabolism, optical signals, extended dipoles, etc. Although it is possible to delimit areas based on microstructural measurements and delimit functional activations in single subjects, the concept of a cortical area should be more general. We therefore show that this concept should be realized as population Žprobability. maps. The quantitative nature of data often implies the use of statistics or mathematics to unambiguously delimit the borders of microstructurally defined areas or functional fields. We present the cortical field hypothesis ŽCFH., i.e. the functional organization of the human cerebral cortex is based on functional fields each occupying a certain, relatively large territory of the cortex. Such fields are the largest functional entities. Some major postulates of the CFH are presented with examples to illustrate these. It is not the purpose of this review to present all experimental evidence for the CFH. This has been done elsewhere in more detail w1,2x. Rather this article is an attempt to derive some principles of how the relation between structure and function could be studied; to present some quantitative methods which will be necessary tools for such studies, and to point out some consequences of the CFH for the organization of the cerebral cortex in parallel and nonparallel processing. These aspects are illustrated with typical examples. The literature cited also should be regarded as examples, since this communication by no means is exhaustive in this respect. 2. Microstructural organisation of the cerebral cortex It is generally assumed that the microstructural parcellation of the human cerebral cortex is a more or less settled issue when it comes to cytoarchitectonics and myeloarchitectonics Žfor example Ref. w3x.. Although Brodmann’s map is known to neurobiologists as the accepted parcellation of the cerebral cortex based on cytoarchitecture, it reflects a parcellation based on subjective criteria of where the borders should be. This map and others w4–8x are usually derived from observations on a single or very few brains, and they neglect the large variations in extent and topography of microstructure from brain to brain w9–11x ŽFigs. 1 and 2.. Moreover, the presented maps are useless since they cannot be translated with any faithfulness into the true three dimensional format of the brain, nor into a flat-mounted 2D format. New attempts to investigate the microstructural parcellation of the cerebral cortex in man must be based on quantitatiÕe, obserÕer-independent cytoarchitectonic and myeloarchitectonic studies, take the intersubject variability into account and be truly 3D volumes transferable to a standard anatomical format. Further, no cortical area should be parcelled by a single criterion, such as that of cytoarchitecture. Instead, additional inde- P.E. Roland, K. Zillesr Brain Research ReÕiews 26 (1998) 87–105 Fig. 1. Brodmann’s areas based on cytoarchitectural studies of non-quantitative nature on mainly a single brain w139x. 89 90 P.E. Roland, K. Zillesr Brain Research ReÕiews 26 (1998) 87–105 Fig. 2. Individual variations of the extent of cytoarchitectural areas 4a and 1 in three subjects. ŽA. The borders of 4a Žred. and area 1 Žyellow. are shown in the standard brain format w33x. ŽB. Three dimensional reconstruction and surface rendering of areas 4 and 1 based on quantitative cytoarchitectonics ŽSee text.. The surface rendering of the areas is done on the standard brain format of the Human Brain Atlas w33x. Note that there is no relation between the gross morphology and the extent and localization, neither did such correlations appear in the original brains ŽFrom Roland and Zilles w11x by permission.. pendent criteria like myeloarchitecture and the receptor architecture should be used to, by multiple criteria, delimit a microstructural area whenever possible w11,12x. Published examples of a combined cyto- and receptorarchitectural approach in humans demonstrate the effectiveness of this concept w12–19x. Quantitative cytoarchitectonics and delimitation of cortical cytoarchitectural areas by statistical measures is a relatively recent development. The methodology is described in w12,13,20,21x. Software to correct for the distortions due to fixation, sectioning, and embedding of the histological sections is necessary as well as magnetic resonance imaging of the post mortem brains prior to sectioning ŽFor details, see Refs. w22,23x.. Even if it is possible to define objectively the borders based on quantitative measurements of the microstructure and receptor structure, the extent and localization of such delimited areas vary from brain to brain w9–11,24–26x. The localization and extent of a cortical area defined on quantitative measurements, therefore, can only be in the form of a three-dimensional population Žprobability. map. 3. Population maps A population map of a microstructurally defined area is a three dimensional representation in standard anatomical format of the delimitation of the area in a population of subjects. Let the microstructural quantitative variable be m. Further let the area in question be defined as m exceeding a certain value m c . It is then possible in an individual brain of subject Si to define a volume within which m ) m c . In the 3D pictorial standard anatomical representation of Si ’s postmortem brain all voxels within this volume thus will have values larger than m c . Let there be n brains examined, and let i be an indicator function P.E. Roland, K. Zillesr Brain Research ReÕiews 26 (1998) 87–105 with the value of 1 when Si g in the volume in which m ) m c and 0 otherwise; then one can for each voxel in standard anatomical format determine the fraction of subjects Ž h. for which m ) m c , i.e. hm) mc s 1 n h Ý Si i m) mc Ž 1. The 3D standard anatomical representation of h thus constitutes a population map of that area. In other words the population map of an area, voxel by voxel shows the fraction of brains belonging to that area. Others have suggested that morphometric variability can be described as probability maps, a concept closely related to population maps w27,28x. The variation of microstructurally quantitatively defined areas depends on the standard anatomical format chosen. This issue is examined by Roland et al. w29x. As an example on how a population map can be constructed, consider visual area V2. 91 constructed brain was transformed into the format of the Human Brain Atlas ŽHBA. w33x. In this way V2 was defined by borders of densities of neurons ŽAmunts, Malikovic et al., unpublished observations. and laminar myelin densities in individual brains w12x. These densities and GABA A receptor densities changed at the V1rV2 and V2rV3, V2rVP borders w12x. Each brain then contained a volume designated as V2. When transformed into standard format, the five images basically had identical gross morphological format. The volumes of V2, however, due to individual differences, covered slightly different parts of the standard brain format volume. Fig. 3 shows the population map of V2, based on five brains. The border of V2 in Fig. 3 is not absolute, but defined by the 50 percentile i.e. voxels for which one half of the population have V2, and the other half another area. The delimitation of functional areas is also by population maps Žsee later.. 3.1. Visual area V2 described as a population map 4. Functional parcellation of the cortex, the cortical field activation hypothesis The volume density of neurons in V2 in five postmortem brains was estimated with the grey level index ŽGLI. procedure w30x. Each pixel represents neuronal density in a field measuring 27 mm per side. Neuronal density profiles, oriented orthogonally to the laminae and extending from the boundary between layers I and II to that between layer VI and white matter were extracted from the images. These profiles indicated the neuronal density throughout all six lamina. Since the length of the profile curves depends on the distance from the pial surface to the white matter border, the profile curves were standardized to a cortical thickness of 100% w12,21x. A mean feature vector X 1 was calculated from a block of 10 adjacent profile curves, and another mean feature vector X 2 from a neighbouring block of 10 profile curves. The Mahalanobis X distance w31x D 2 s Ž X 1 yX 2 . Cy1 Ž X 1 y X 2 . was calculated from the vectors and the inverse of the pooled covariance matrix Cy1 . Plotting the D 2 values as a function of the position of the blocks of profiles revealed maxima at locations at which major differences in laminar patterns occurred between area V2 and the neighbouring areas. Statistical significance was established by computing Hotelling’s statistic T 2 s D 2rŽ1rn1 q 1rn 2 . in which n1 s n 2 s 10, the number of profiles from which each of the mean vectors had been calculated w13,21x. In this way, borders between cortical areas in general can be determined observer-independently based on laminar neuronal densities. By using the magnetic resonance images of the postmortem brains acquired before histological processing as reference, compensation for shrinkage and distortion was done by algorithms according to Schormann et al. w22,23,32x. This software was also used for the 3D-reconstruction based on the sections. Subsequently the 3D-re- It is often quoted that the elements of neuronal activity are segregated into functional columns w3,34,35x. Whereas this arrangement is obvious in konio-cortices or perhaps in parakonio-cortices, the increased synaptic and neuronal activity elsewhere seems to occur more like in fields, blobs or patches, questioning the columnar organisation as a general principle of organisation w36–39x. At a more coarse level, studies in which tracer methods have been used to reveal the activation of the cortex indicate that the information processing in isocortex is always dependent on activation of cortical fields with a size ranging from some 600 to 2000 mm3 w1,40–47x, Žsee Ref. w2x for a review.. This is the cortical field activation hypothesis which in its weak formulation states that neurons in the cerebral cortex change their biochemical activity in large distinct ensembles w2x The field is a theoretical construct w1,2x based on the actual observed macroscopically extended activations in man and primates, and on electro-physiological and anatomical observations, plus theoretical considerations all summarized in Ref. w2x. The field is assumed to exist as the domain of active ion-channels, active synapses, and active neurons engaged locally in functionally contributing to the task being performed by the brain. The cortical tissue surrounding the field is apparently not activated. Thus the density of active ion-channels, active synapses and active neurons is higher in the field than in the surrounding cortical tissue. In essence the Cortical Field Hypothesis ŽCFH. in its weak formulation does not address the issue on how in detail the synapses and neurons within the field are activated. It only postulates that the field is the largest functional element. The active ion-channels can be measured in experimental animals with fluorophores w48–51x, or with radioactive 92 P.E. Roland, K. Zillesr Brain Research ReÕiews 26 (1998) 87–105 ligands w2x. The activity of the synapses increases the energy metabolism in the synapses and active synapses therefore can be visualized in autoradiograms w52,53x. When the synaptic activity is visualised in autoradiograms of primates, the field is seen to be composed of patches, bands, stripes — and in koniocortex — columns of increased glucose phosphorylation w36,37,54–56x. Similar fields of patchy nature can also be observed with optical methods in the homotypical isocortex of non-human primates and man w57,58x. The bandlike, patchy and stripelike fine organization does not present any contradiction to the observation that in perpendicular cortical penetrations the neurons may respond to the same stimulus properties w3x. Based on other observations, mainly in non-human primates one may formulate a stronger Õersion of the CFH. The stronger version relies on assumptions. The main issue is that the patches, bands, stripes and columns of activity constituting a field are postulated to perform some form of cooperative computation. This is exemplified in the single unit electrode recordings w59–63x, although a direct correspondence between patches, stripes and bands mainly reflecting synaptic activity and action potentials of P.E. Roland, K. Zillesr Brain Research ReÕiews 26 (1998) 87–105 local neurons is not to be expected. Multiunit recordings in awake behaving animals also seem to support the idea that synchronisation of neuronal populations is field like and distributed to multiple fields w64x. The fine organization of the field is inhomogeneous in as much as synaptic excitation and synaptic inhibition vary within the field Žand autoradiographically give rise to the columns, patches, bands and stripes., but the parts in which excitation dominates and the parts in which inhibition dominates are all hypothesized to form some form of cooperative computation. In the agranular and the konio-parakoniocortices, the fields are topologically organised Žsomatotopical, topotopical, retinotopical.. Outside these zones, the organisation is non-topical. The anatomical reason for the internal organization of fields has become more evident in recent years. In motor cortex, somatosensory cortex, visual association area V4 and in prefrontal cortex, the intrinsic cortical connectivity is organised in a patch-like fashion w65,66x. A small part of the cortex is connected with surrounding cortex in a patchor band-like fashion, the patches are interrupted by gaps in which no neurons are connected with the small part. The widths of both patches and gaps seem dependent on the dendritic spread of pyramidal neurons in layers 2 and 3 w65,66x. This pattern can be matched with the terminal arborizations of axon collaterals and horizontal intrinsic connections w67,68x. Also cortico-cortical fiber terminals seem to produce a similar pattern of patches and gaps in the target area w66,69–73x. Axon terminals of cortico-cortical connexions and callosal terminals can span several mm in monkey cortex w74–76x. These factors and in addition the dispersed connectivity pattern of cortico-cortical groups of axons from a small cortical locus Žw77,78x for example. are major structural determinants in the formation of functional fields. Under the strong version of the CFH, each field is supposed to make some functional contribution to the task being performed by the brain. We refer to this as the corporate computation of the neurons in the field. At a given moment, the synapses in the patches and bands in which excitation prevails are activated due to depolariza- 93 tion of the afferent terminals and of the horizontal intracortical excitatory terminals. The afferent terminals being depolarized may originate from the thalamus and from several other cortical fields. For a short period of time, one may perhaps somewhat simplified, regard the afferent sources as fixed, meaning that the fast computation in the field is determined by the particular combination of thalamic and cortical afferents Žleaving out the modulatory amine afferents.. Each patch within the field is assumed to receive the same combination of depolarized afferents from the fixed sources. However the horizontal excitatory intracortical connexions within and between patches must have some role in making the computation corporate. Thus the functional contribution of the field is the corporate computation being performed by the neurons constituting the field. At any moment the combination of afferents depolarizing the dendrites within the field may change and thereby the functional contribution changes. Presumably can parts of the network constituting the field be lesioned, but still be functional w79x. The CFH in its strong version fails if the field at any given moment contains patches performing computations of two different kinds or if the horizontal cortical connexions are unimportant for the computation. If it is so that the field is surrounded by less active synapses and neurons it must have borders and a shape. The borders of functional fields can be defined in anatomically coherent images of the change in any physiological– biochemical variable, for example DrCBF, the change in regional cerebral metabolic rates DrCMR, change in neurotransmitter binding DBmax, change in optical signal, as fields of EPSP’s and IPSP’s, as a BOLD signal in f-MRI, opening of several types of ion-channels etc. In such images the problem of determining where an increase stops and noise or decreases take over can be treated in a strict mathematical way w80x. The general idea is to embed the quantitatively measured physiological–biochemical signal or a derived statistical signal into a one parameter family of successively smoothed maps by linear operations. Under scale-space theory, the field is represented as a scale-space blob. For a precise definition of a scale-space Fig. 3. Population map of visual area V2. The color scale extends from dark blue Ž0.0. to white Ž1.0. for the probability of V2 localization. The probability space in which half of the population has their V2 Žthe 50% overlap border. is seen as a transition between yellow and green. The individual cytoarchitectural V2 maps have been filtered with a 4 mm Gaussian isotropic filter ŽFrom Roland et al. w29x by permission.. Fig. 4. Population map of functional fields in the somatosensory motor region of the left hemisphere. Six subjects discriminated the shapes of rectangular parallelepipeda with their right hand w96x. Red color: six out of six subjects having their activation, yellow: five out of six subjects having their activation, in orange was four out of six, green: three out of six, light blue: two out of six, and dark blue: one out of six. This functional population map is superimposed on the average MRI of the anatomy of the six subjects. The MRI is by 8 mm3 voxels, hence the blurring ŽCourtesy of Dr. Anders Ledberg, Division of Human Brain Research, Karolinska Institute, 1997.. Fig. 5. Maps of the average extent of a group of ten subjects doing a somatosensory reaction time task with the right hand. Sagittal section of the left hemisphere through the lateral parietal operculum. The approximate location of the areas 1 and 2 is shown. Note the field activations in areas 3b, 2 and cortex lining the interparietal sulcus as well as the lateral parietal operculum and the scattered fields in the premotor cortex. Fields are shown superimposed on the standard Human Brain Atlas w33x. 94 P.E. Roland, K. Zillesr Brain Research ReÕiews 26 (1998) 87–105 blob, see Ref. w80x. As a scale-space blob the intensity is linked over different scales to define a five-dimensional object with extent in three spatial dimensions one intensity dimension and one scale-space dimension. Given the intensity and the spatial extent, the borders of the field or scale-space blob can be uniquely mathematically represented at an optimal scale w80–82x. That the field is the largest functional element implies that information processing is not done by the synapses and neurons in a single independent column, a single independent patch or a single independent band. If this was so, it would be impossible to see changes in activity of the cerebral cortex by imaging methods which integrate over larger tissue blocks Žof the approximate size of 40 mm3 or larger.. Thus many columns, patches, stripes of increased synaptic activity must be present within the tissue sampled in order to be detected by PET or f-MRI. Still one might claim that the patches, stripes and columns of increased activity belong to independent population of neurons, for example excited by independent Žparallel. afferent axons, and that no intracortical communication exists between the activated neuron populations. This objection does not affect the CFH in its weak formulation, but — if it is true — falsifies the CFH in its strong formulation. The field activation concept transcends different scales. A field can be defined as a cortical domain of active Žopen. ion-channels or as an active large neuronal population at the macroscopical scale. This should not be confused with the methods used to identify fields. At the macroscopical scale f-MRI and PET may not have the spatial resolution to segment areas which are functionally compartmentalized, for example V1 and V2 where the CFH does not apply. Since most neuroimaging studies of man are studies in which the statistically significant voxels of a group of individuals are summarized as a collection of the centers of gravity of fields or points of maximal activity, the field character is not evident from such studies. However, recently the extent or number of statistically significant voxels have become a statistical parameter w83–86x. The significant parts of the cerebral volume appear then as clusters of voxels and these statistical images are often called cluster images and the results from experiments analyzed this way have supported the field activation hypothesis Žw87–91x and many others.. Thus, when the cerebral cortex is activated during a particular task, multiple activated volumes appear, but since the cortex is thin Ž1.5–3 mm. a more appropriate term may be fields w2x. The exact extent of fields is difficult to ascertain by conventional approaches, because the extent of significant clusters of voxels by the current methods appear by thresholding statistical images of the type of Student’s t and similar images w84,85,92x. Furthermore, these statistical images have so far mainly been based on results of a whole group of subjects, thus not reflecting the individual variances in increases and decreases of the rCBF. With the advent of 3D acquisition PET, it is now possible to study the extent and the variation of extent in activated cortical fields among individuals w93x. Functional magnetic resonance imaging ŽfMRI. in part has the same problems. The exact extent of the activated volumes is not clear from the fMRI images, because nearby located veins give a stronger signal than does the cortical tissue w94,95x. A reduction in voxel volume with the purpose of increasing the spatial resolution of fMRI unfortunately reduces the available signal, but the noise level remains constant. This in practice reduces the signal to noise ratio so that the spatial resolution of PET and fMRI images are still comparable. 4.1. Population maps of functional fields With the new method w82x, fields can be delimited in a statistical image based on analysis of several individuals or from statistical images from single individuals. Only the latter will be true population maps, that is 3D-maps which show the variations in location, extent and amplitude of the change in the quantitatively measured physiological variable. Fig. 4 shows the variations in extent of activation of the motor cortex and somatosensory areas in six subjects discriminating the shapes of rectangular parallelepipeda w93,96x. Thus as expected, the extent of functional fields also vary among subjects, even in a standard anatomical format. This implies that functional fields also should be represented as population maps. It is possible then to delimit the volume for which a certain percentage of a population is represented by a particular functional field. 4.2. Multiple fields account for all types of brain tasks, examples The cortical field hypothesis was presented as a series of axioms of which one is: Multiple fields working together account for all types of brain activity, in the awake state Žsee 16.6.2 in Ref. w2x.. This implies that no function can be subserved by the brain, by the activation of one field only. This means for example also that simple point-like stimuli in a behavioral context should activate multiple fields. A point-like stimulus on a receptor sheet may be expected to activate only a very restricted part of the primary sensory cortex. But according to the cortical field hypothesis the effect of stimulating a small part of, say the skin surface should give rise to a field with a somatotopically corresponding localization, reasonably large to be detected with f-MRI or PET and additional fields of similar or larger size elsewhere. In a recent experiment, nine subjects were engaged in a simple somatosensory reaction-time task w97x. The signal to react to was a 2 mm in diameter stylus which suddenly, at random intervals, indented the pulp of the right index-finger by 2.8 mm for 1000 ms. The subjects reacted by pressing a response key P.E. Roland, K. Zillesr Brain Research ReÕiews 26 (1998) 87–105 with the right thumb. The control was holding the key with the thumb on, but otherwise resting w98x. Although the peripheral stimulus was restricted to some 15 mm2 of the skin surface the primary somatosensory cortex was activated corresponding to area 3b in a rather large field extending more than 7 mm medio-laterally on the postcentral gyrus ŽFig. 5.. In addition larger fields appeared in the cortex lining the postcentral sulcus, and the somatosensory association areas in the anterior part of the superior and inferior parietal lobule including the parietal operculum ŽFig. 5.. Other types of brain works, in which larger parts of the receptor sheet have been stimulated are associated with similar size fields in the homotypical isocortex w44,45,47,99–103x. Thus even point-like stimuli are associated with larger fields in homotypical isocortex where field size does not seem to be dependent on the size of the stimulus on the peripheral receptor sheet. There have been no challenges to the CFH in its weak form that the cortical field is the largest functional element. However there have been challenges to the axiom that multiple fields account for all types of brain activity in the awake state. One apparent challenge is the claim that there is only one area specifically devoted to color perception w104x. The discrepancy is more apparent than real. It is possible that by subtracting the measurement of activity of one condition from that of a slightly different condition, that only a single field will appear. Cognitive subtraction paradigms w105x assume that brain functions can be separated into components, of which some can be eliminatedradded by manipulating the task conditions. Thus by using a control condition which contains one cognitive component less than the task condition, one can isolate the cortical fields and subcortical neural populations subserving that component. By repetitively subtracting the measured activity Žregional cerebral blood flow rCBF, regional cerebral metabolism rCMR and BOLD signal, etc.. of control from the measured activity during the task across subjects, one arrives at a statistical image from which the fields changing ŽrCBF, rCMR. significantly will appear. The conclusion usually drawn from such experiments is that the fields isolated this way represent the neuronal populations responsible for that cognitive component. In the example of w104,106x, only one site appeared as being specific for color perception compared to the control. This of course does not imply that this region alone subserves perception of color. The limitations of interpretation of results from subtraction paradigms have been pointed out earlier w2,107,108x. The permissible conclusion of the above color experiment is that the synaptic activity, as reflected in the field increase of rCBF, is higher during color perception compared to the control Žcontaining no color components.. Of course color perception would not be possible if not the blob regions of V1, the stripe region of V2 and the V4 were active as a minimum. Indeed, Gulyas and Roland w45x in a subtraction paradigm, in which controls were detection of similar 95 non-colored dots, found several fields appearing as participating in color perception, some of which were located in V1 and V2 w109x. That the rCBF cancel out by subtraction in a certain region just signifies that the task and its control activated that region to the same extent or that no significant changes occur. This does not permit any conclusion as to the functional contribution of such areas which cancel out and hence no conclusion about whether the fieldŽs. found significant represent or do not represent a particular perceptual or cognitive ‘component’. It is usually assumed that the cerebral cortex is functionally specialized and that each field and corresponding neuron population make a specific functional contribution reflected in the computation taking place in the field. On the other hand, the CFH postulates that multiple fields working together account for all types of brain activity in the awake state Ž16.6.2 in Ref. w2x.. The simultaneous activation of multiple fields is the function being performed by the brain Ž16.6.3 in Ref. w2x.. No object, scene or pattern is represented in a single field Ž16.6.9 in Ref. w2x.. Is it still possible to envisage that a certain brain task could be performed by a single cortical field? First it is difficult to imagine the field working in isolation, because each part of the cortex is connected to by 5 to 20 other regions w110,111x. Second, although neurons locally may engage in synchronous oscillatory activity, such activity will tend to spread and distribute over many cortical regions w112x. Rather the field activation reflects the intrinsic synaptic activity plus the afferent synaptic activity from 5–20 other regions of the brain sending afferents to the field territory. The composition of active afferents may change, giving the possibilities of alternative functional contributions of the field or a field covering mainly identical territory. This high connectivity between cortical areas will tend to always give activation patterns of multiple fields associated with the performance of a certain brain task. Besides the limitations of subtraction paradigms, cognitive subtractive categorical designs have been criticised for neglecting the interaction between task components w108x. A brain function is logically defined against no task conditions. The problem Ždiscussed elsewhere in Refs. w2,113x. is that in no task conditions the brain may well be active with all sorts of intrinsic activities. A clear reference state is difficult to establish Žsee, though, Refs. w98,114,115x.. That is why the subtraction technique has become so popular. However to arrive at an approximate conclusion about the functional contribution of a certain cortical part, many subtraction Žand correlation. experiments must be done with different reference or control conditions. 5. Intersection analysis Whereas it is hazardous to claim a particular functional specialization of a field on the basis of a subtraction 96 P.E. Roland, K. Zillesr Brain Research ReÕiews 26 (1998) 87–105 paradigm applied on a single group of subjects, repeated applications of subtraction paradigms Žwith different control conditions, andror test conditions, all containing the functional aspect searched for. provide, if a consistent set of fields is identified, a stronger evidence for the functional contributions of the isolated field. Thus put in another way, the set of fields expected to subserve a certain functionrfunctional contribution should be consistent across groups and conditions including that functionrfunctional contribution. This is why this approach first was called consistence analysis w107x. A more appropriate name is intersection analysis, because the functional contributions of fields are revealed by Boolean intersections. Intersection analysis provides an opportunity for radically different experiment designs. Let us assume that conditions A and B differ in all respects except one. Then one can formulate the hypothesis that a certain set of fields will be active in both conditions A and B. The isolation of these fields will appear in the cluster images of the subtractions, condition A y control A l condition B y control B . A Boolean intersection between the two statistical images showing the statistically significant fields in A y control A and B y control B shows the statistically significant fields activated in both condition A and condition B. Similarly, Boolean intersection can be applied to statistical Žcluster. images showing correlation between the DrCBF and an external vector Žfor example a measure of psychophysical performance.. Especially when applied to independent statistical Žcluster. images, intersection analysis increases statistical power. An alternative approach having some similarities to intersection analysis, building on the general linear model was presented by Price and Friston w116x. By multiplying cluster images from different subtractions one obtains an image in which all voxels are zero except for those that contain a non-zero value in the images. This image thus shows the overlaps. Previously one has defined a priori the criterion that two activated fields X i,A and X i,B originating from the respective cluster images A and B reflect activity in roughly the same synaptic cortical field. Let the estimated volumes and centers of gravities of X i,A and X i,B be Vi,A and Vi,B , and a i,cog and bi,cog respectively. Let Vi,A - Vi,B . The activated fields X i,A and X i,B reflect activity in roughly the same synaptic cortical field if, on multiplying the cluster images A and B X i ,A l X i ,B s Q; VQ G 0.5Vi ,A ; a i ,cog g Q and bi ,cog g Q Ž 2. This means that two fields reflect activation in the same location if the overlap is equal to or greater than half the volume of the smallest of the two fields, and the centers of gravity of the two fields are included in the overlap. Overlaps which satisfy these arbitrary formal criteria are major overlaps. It should be emphasized that these criteria are arbitrary. Furthermore, this practical and formal approach does not address the issue of getting overlaps which are minor, nor the issue of the probability by chance to get such an overlap. Since the extent of significant clusters in current approaches depends on threshold and filter width, the two cluster images must come from images which have been filtered to the same extent and thresholded to the same extent to give the same significance limit a. In the case that the cluster images A and B are obtained from statistical images which are correlated Žfor example A y control A and B y control A . it is only possible to give an upper bound for the probability of a major overlap. The upper bound is the equal to the significance level of X i,A . The probability of overlaps between cluster images originating from two statistically independent Žcluster. images can be calculated w117x. Further, one can estimate the probability that an overlap of a certain volume occurs by chance w117x. This makes it possible to use intersection analysis more generally and examine the overlap quantitatively. 5.1. Intersection analysis, examples Intersection analysis was used by Ledberg and Roland w93x to demonstrate three somatosensory functional areas in the parietal operculum, by Roland et al. w117x to identify a new functional somatosensory area, IPA, lining the anterior portion of the intraparietal sulcus, and recently by Gulyas et al. w118x studying color perception in two independent groups of subjects. The first group of subjects discriminated colored random dot patterns, the control being discrimination of similar black and white random dot patterns w45x. The second group of subjects detected color changes under isoluminant Ganzfield conditions, the control being attention to color changes in a condition in which no such changes occurred w118x. The third group detected color changes under isoluminant non-Ganzfield conditions. The control was rest, closed eyes. In addition, visual areas V1 and V2 were delimited in five postmortem brains. The location and extent of the cytoarchitectural areas V1 and V2 were transformed into standard anatomical space w119x. The intersection of the images showing statistically significant fields of activation for each of the three groups revealed major overlaps in V1, V2, the fusiform and occipital lateral gyri. Hypotheses about the functional contribution of a field built on results from a single subtraction paradigm run a high risk of being short lived. It takes only one experiment activating the same field Žor more than half the area of the field. and permitting an alternative interpretation, to kill such hypotheses. The point about intersection analysis is exactly that hypotheses about functional contributions of fields are made on all available information and new information can easily be added. P.E. Roland, K. Zillesr Brain Research ReÕiews 26 (1998) 87–105 6. Another example of intersection analysis of short term and long term memory representations Although fields are the largest functional elements of the cortex, this does not imply that fields are modular. In other words, the appearance of a functional field Žobtained with PET and fMRI. marks the afferent and intrinsic synaptic activity, and since the same region may receive different combinations of active afferents in different brain tests, it is not guaranteed that all combinations of active afferents will cover the exact same cortical territory. On one hand one expects fields appearing during a particular 97 test to be reproducible if that test is repeated in the same population of subjects. Small, presumably insignificant differences may appear in field extent if the test is repeated in another subject population, especially if the tested populations are small. This is likely to be due to the individual variance in location and extent of fields. Secondly the exact extent of fields must be determined in an unambiguous and unique manner w80,81x, which has first become possible at this moment. For this reason, there are no data available analyzed rigorously. Important criteria for field reproducibility are the localization i.e. center of gravity and the extent of the field. Fig. 6. ŽA. One of the patterns to be learned. ŽB. The seven targets to be kept in working memory. P.E. Roland, K. Zillesr Brain Research ReÕiews 26 (1998) 87–105 98 Since the extent of the field depends on the threshold used in generating the statistically significant fields from the statistical image Žoften a t-image., fields from two different groups of subjects are comparable only if the same thresholds are used and the material in other respects is comparable. With these reservations, we have re-analyzed two materials with an intersection analysis, that of motor preparation for pointing w120x, and that of recall of learned geometrical patterns w47x. With the purpose of localizing the cortical fields in the human brain representing a spatial visual pattern being kept in working memory w120x, as well as those representing recall of previously learned geometrical patterns w47x, the rCBF was measured in two groups of 10 normal healthy, male volunteers with positron emission tomography ŽPET.. The first group did a delayed pointing task which required the targets for the pointing to be kept in working memory in the delay period between target exposure and actual pointing. The PET measurement was made in this delay period. The second group learned 10 large colored, stationary field visual patterns over a period of 1 h, and were then requested to recall all learned patterns during a PET measurement. The only common denominators of these two tasks were that the stimuli were colored, stationary, visual patterns occupying a large part of the visual field ŽFig. 6., and that internal visual representations were necessary to solve the tasks. Control experiments were run to make sure the subjects were keeping the targets in their short term memory and were able to point to the targets. Similarly that the second group actually had learned the 10 patterns and were able to imagine these. Table 1 and Fig. 7 describe the results. Obviously the two tasks engaged partly the same fields in the posterior parietal cortex despite the different nature of the tasks. If one applies the criterion of the center of gravity Žc.o.g.. of the field in motor preparation and pattern recall, the c.o.g. of the field in the left posterior superior parietal cortex and the c.o.g. of the field in the left angular gyrus in pattern recall as well as in preparation for pointing were all within the two overlap areas ŽFig. 7.. However, as can be seen from the volume of overlap, this was in both cases less than 50% of the smallest field ŽTable 1.. The large field in the left angular gyrus appearing in preparation for pointing undoubtedly consists of several functional fields. This indicates that although the fields overlapped considerably, the underlying synaptic active populations differed slightly in the top regions of left angular gyrus and the posterior part of the superior parietal lobule. On the other hand, the intersection of fields indicates that the working memory of large visual field images and the recall of large visual field geometrical patterns shares synaptic and neuronal populations in the top region of the angular gyrus and the posterior extreme of the superior parietal lobule. One could argue that these consistent activations may be due to the task instructions being kept in a working memory rather than to internal visual representations. However, in the group keeping targets in working memory the instruction was to use the targets for subsequent pointing, in the recall group the instruction was to recall already learned patterns. Also with respect to the internal representations the instructions differed: the first group of subjects were requested to keep one single large visual field image showing spatial relations between targets in mind until they had completed their pointing. The second group was requested to recall 10 different geometrical patterns repetitively, which they did with a frequency of one per 6 s. Thus the instructions for the two tasks differed in almost all respects and neither task activated any areas associated with language representations. Each task was associated with other increases in the parietal and temporal and frontal lobe. These activations might well be also associated with representations of the internal visual images indicating that the angular gyrus and the superior parietal lobule were not the cortical fields exclusively representing the spatial and geometrical images. However, the only common denominator of the two tasks was the internal visual representations of large visual field, complex, stationary colored patterns, and this consistently activated the angular gyrus, and the superior parietal lobule. For these reasons we conclude the rCBF increases in the angular gyrus, the superior parietal lobule, and the posterior inferior temporal cortex to reflect increased synaptic activity associated with recall and working memory of internal representations of the large field patterns. Areas corresponding to the location of these fields have been activated Table 1 Localization and extent of parietal fields in preparation for pointing, recall of geometrical patterns and the intersection of these fields Preparation for pointing Left intraparietal post. Left post. superior parietal Left angular gyrus Right intraparietal post. Recall of pattern Preparation l recall x y z mm3 x y z mm3 x y z mm3 39 19 52 y38 y63 y71 y46 y59 34 44 39 42 1070 2220 7780 1950 45 17 50 y39 y67 y73 y47 y58 y41 39 35 39 1150 1810 1860 830 44 17 49 y38 y65 y71 y46 y57 38 43 40 42 180 580 620 60 post.: posterior. Coordinates are centers of gravity in the HBA w119x and Talairach coordinate system w140x. The statistical images of preparation and recall were thresholded at t s 2.00 and cluster size 800 mm3. The mean t values of the above regions in all cases ) 2.7. P.E. Roland, K. Zillesr Brain Research ReÕiews 26 (1998) 87–105 99 Fig. 7. Left shows the parietal lobe activations of the 10 subjects recalling geometrical patterns from their long-term memory. Middle shows the parietal activations of the eight subjects keeping the target field in their working memory. Right shows the intersection between the two cluster images. when subjects were recalling full visual field scenes in color from long term memory w121x. This experiment thus was inconclusive with respect to whether the field extent was reproducible. One reason could be that the measurements were done on two different PET scanners, and the data transformed from the format of the atlas of Greitz et al. w122x to the Human Brain Atlas ŽHBA.. More compelling data showing major overlaps and centers of gravity included in intersections were produced by Ledberg et al. w123x and Roland et al. w117x. However, only the application of an unambiguous mathematical description of the extent and localization of fields w81,82x will resolve the issue of whether fields are exactly reproducible in shape extent and localization of c.o.g. 7. Formulation of the structural–functional problem in cortical parcellation As stated, a cortical area is defined by multiple criteria on the microstructural domain. For the cerebral cortex of man, one important microstructural criterion is — for practical reasons — missing, that of connectivity. Cortical areas defined by microstructure vary in localization, extent and topography among individuals. In the functional domain, changes in activity of the cerebral cortex manifest themselves as functional fields. Similarly, the localization and extent of functional fields vary among individuals. Functional domains with particular functional contributions may be isolated by field intersection analysis. The results of the microstructural analysis are population maps indicating the probability that all members of the population are represented by a particular area, defined by quantitative microstructural analysis. Similarly, the localization and extent of the functional fields and functional domains must be given in the form of population maps. Although it is usually assumed that there is a close spatial correspondence between the extent of functional fields and microstructurally defined cortical areas, data supporting this are sparse w124x. Therefore the correspondence between functional domains and cortical areas is only a hypothesis, and as such it must be tested experimentally. Depending on which probability of occurrence one settles for Že.g., 0.5, 0.75, 0.95., the hypotheses of equiterritorial microstructural and functional domains can be tested region by region for different microstructural modalities andror combinations thereof. For example V2 defined by cyto-, myelo and receptor differences to neighboring regions is an example of an area defined by multiple microstructural criteria. The intersection analysis allows functional domains to be described as intersections of fields originating from multiple subtractions, or multiple correlations with other fields or with external vectors, for example psychophysical variables. Since the functional anatomical techniques of PET and fMRI in particular show changes in physiological and biochemical variables related to afferent and intrinsic synaptic activity of the field, these methods should be complemented with electrophysiological recordings such as EEG, MEG to investigate the spatial concordance of changes in electrical, physiological and biochemical variables. 8. The interference principle If it is so that neurons in the cerebral cortex activate in large distinct populations or fields, and if the field in essence consists of neurons performing cooperative computation as described in Section 4, it follows that two different brain tasks requiring the participation of one or several identical fields cannot be performed simultaneously. This is the interference principle: ‘‘If two different brain tasks make use of one or several identical fields, they cannot be performed simultaneously. From knowledge of field activations one can predict which types of tasks will interfere’’ w2x. The interference of two tasks thus is dependent on whether fields occupy the same neuronal and synaptic territory and since all neurons within the field are, under the strong version of the CFH, one way or another engaged 100 P.E. Roland, K. Zillesr Brain Research ReÕiews 26 (1998) 87–105 in the local computation, the neurons within the field cannot simultaneously be engaged in two tasks. For example, if fields executing brain task A totally overlap one or more fields engaged in executing brain task B, tasks A and B will interfere. It is important to bethink that one or more major overlaps might be sufficient to provoke an interference w125x. The interference principle is fundamental for the field activation hypothesis. If two tasks can be executed simultaneously without any increase in reaction time or number or errors, despite that the two tasks rely on one or more identical or mainly identical fields, the strong version of the CFH fails. On the other hand, if the neurons within the fields perform cooperative computation and major overlaps occur between fields belonging to different brain tasks, this is a limitation of the parallel processing in the brain. The question thus is not whether tasks containing almost exactly the same perceptual and information processing constraints will interfere, for example, two color discrimination tasks, but is more general and pertain to tasks which share one or more fields. So far, the interference principle has been examined in three studies. In one study Passingham w126x found interference, i.e. increase in reaction times for two tasks both engaging the supplementary motor area and between two other tasks both engaging the superolateral prefrontal cortex and the anterior cingulate cortex. Since working memory of material from different sensory modalities activates almost identical fields in the superolateral part of the prefrontal cortex w102x, one would expect that two working memory tasks performed simultaneously would interfere. Indeed this was so, an auditory working memory task and a visual working memory task when performed simultaneously increased the reaction times and the error rates, compared to conditions in which the two tasks were performed separately w125x. In this example, the interference was associated with multiple overlaps, a few of these were major overlaps in the prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex and inferior parietal lobule. These studies however, did not address the question of whether simultaneous performance of two tasks which interfere would be associated with activations of additional functional fields. For example that the brain during dual task performance would recruit fields in excess of those engaged in each of the two tasks. If this was so it would indicate that the brain had alternative and in some sense parallel modes of solving dual task performance. The same auditory working memory task was then performed single in one PET scan, the visual working memory task was performed single in another PET scan, and in a third condition both working memory task were performed simultaneously during PET scans. The fields associated with dual task performance were the spatial sum of the fields present in the single task conditions w103x. In other words, no additional fields appeared during dual task performance. Thus the brain does not always — or in general perform parallel processing. Non-parallel processing, ex- emplified by partial and major overlaps of fields and presumably partial and major sharing of neuronal population is associated with limitations in performance. 9. Parallel processing in the human brain A prerequisite of a demonstration of parallel processing, under the strong version of the CFH, is to have two tasks and show that the fields executing the brain part of the tasks would be non-overlapping. This, as repetitively argued in this report, requires a mathematically unambiguous measure of field shape and extent and a high sensitivity of the statistical methods. A further requirement is that the neurons at one set of fields increase their firing rate or synchronize exclusively in the one task, whereas the neurons at another set of fields increase their firing rate or synchronize exclusively at the other task. Thus a demonstration of parallel processing in the primate and human brain requires an experimental effort which is not yet realistic. Using functional imaging techniques, researchers have shown that the point of maximal changes Žin blood flow or BOLD signal. occur at disparate locations for the visual processing of motion and color w104x, the visual processing of faces and spatial relations w127–129x, the visual attention to shape, color and velocity w130x, and the visual discrimination of shape from color and shape from motion w131x. What has really been demonstrated by these studies is that certain loci, exemplified by the coordinates of points of maximal intensity, centers of gravity or clusters, have been more active in one condition Že.g. color. than another Že.g. motion. and vice versa. This, of course, is not identical to having proven that nowhere in the brain are the same neurons responding to both color and visual motion. One may argue that it might be that one population of neurons is responding in tasks of color perceptionrdiscrimination and motion perceptionrdiscrimination, but in these instances the responses, although task related, are not related to the color processing or motion processing per se. This might well be so, but in that case the suggestions for parallel processing are limited to the visual cortices, and do not pertain to the question of parallel processing in the brain in general. The proposal of parallel processing in visual cortices relies on neuroanatomical and neurophysiological data from non-human primates as well w132–135x. To our knowledge there has been no study of parallel processing within the auditory and somatosensory cortices. This makes the hypotheses of parallel processing, with a few prefrontal exceptions, w136,137x to rely mainly on visual data. 9.1. A case for parallel processing in the somatosensory cortex When feeling surfaces and objects tactually one can distinguish two domains: microgeometry and macrogeome- P.E. Roland, K. Zillesr Brain Research ReÕiews 26 (1998) 87–105 try. A surface may contain small deviations and vaults which cannot be singled out, but give the impression of a texture. This is microgeometry. At a slightly larger scale one can begin to single out local surface curvatures, single vaults, edges; and at an even larger scale single objects. This is macrogeometry. The border between microgeometry and macrogeometry is at a scale around some 500 mm between the deviations w96x. In man, lesions of the parietal operculum interfere with the discrimination of microgeometry Žroughness, texture., whereas lesions of the cortex in the anterior parts of the parietal lobules interfere with discrimination of macrogeometry Žcurvature, shape, length. w79x. This indicates that the somatosensory cortices necessary for normal tactile perception of microgeometry differ from those necessary for normal perception of macrogeometry. In addition Ledberg et al. w123x found the lateral parietal operculum more activated by roughness discrimination than by length discrimination. This prompted us to examine a possible difference in functional contributions of the somatosensory association area located in the parietal operculum ŽLPO. and that or those areas the anterior parts of the parietal lobules. The rCBF was measured with positron emission tomography ŽPET. in two independent groups of normal volunteers using their right hand for all tests. One group discriminated the shapes of a series of ellipsoids w96x. The rCBF was measured also in a control state in which the subjects were motionless and fixating on a cross. The subjects in the other group were blindfolded and asked to discriminate the length of smooth cylinders with their right hand, and in a separate rCBF measurement they discriminated the roughness of macrogeometrically similar but rough cylinders. The rCBF was also measured in a motor control state in which the subjects reproduced the same scanning movements, but without any cylinder to feel. All tasks were matched for tactile contact time and task difficulty, measured as percent correct. The LPO’s were significantly more activated in discrimination of roughness than in the discrimination of shape. No fields posterior to the postcentral sulcus were activated in the comparison of roughness with length or shape. A Boolean intersection on the cluster images showing the fields more activated in roughness than length and roughness than shape wi.e. ŽrCBF roughy rCBF length. l ŽrCBF rough y rCBF shape.x revealed that the left LPO was significantly and consistently activated more by discrimination of microgeometry than by discrimination of macrogeometry Žlength and shape. w117x. The IPA, on the contrary, was significantly more activated both when length discrimination Žlengthy roughness. and when shape discrimination Žshape y roughness. was compared to roughness discrimination. This was the only area which was significantly more activated in both length and shape discrimination compared to roughness discrimination as demonstrated by the Boolean intersection Žshape y roughness l lengthy roughness.. Furthermore the IPA 101 Fig. 8. Projections on the surface of the standard brain of the IPA region and LPO region. The figure shows the extent of the intersection between shape-roughness l length-roughness, shape-control l length-control for the IPA, and the intersection roughness-length l roughness-shape for the LPO w117x. was the only area which was consistently and significantly more activated in discrimination of macrogeometry both when compared to discrimination of microgeometry and when compared to the different controls Ži.e. shape y roughness l lengthy roughness l shape y control l length y control. w117x. Thus a double dissociation of function exists between LPO and IPA in the activation by roughness on one side and length and shape on the other ŽFig. 8.. Although the precise mechanisms underlying somatosensory form perception and roughness perception are still unknown, the differences in functional contributions of the LPO and IPA indicate that separate processing streams exist for the different somatosensory submodalities of microgeometry and macrogeometry. Parallel processing of visual submodalities is likely within the somatosensory areas and visual areas respectively. Indications of parallel processing between modalities may also exist. For example, the somatosensory processing of shape is segregated from the visual processing of shape in the respective modality specific areas — even when tactile shapes must be matched with visual shapes and vice versa w138x. 10. Conclusions 1. Microstructural parcellation of the human cerebral cortex must be made on the basis of: Quantitative measurements and multiple criteria. Such microstructurally defined areas appear as population maps. 2. The organisation of cerebral cortex into functional columns may apply for koniocortices — elsewhere the 102 P.E. Roland, K. Zillesr Brain Research ReÕiews 26 (1998) 87–105 active synaptic populations take the form of larger blobs or patches. The columns, patches or blobs combine in cortical functional fields, postulated to be the largest functional entities of the cerebral cortex w1,2x. Multiple fields provide the functional contributions of the cerebral cortex. 3. The functional parcellation of the human cerebral cortex must be based on field-population maps, at best from intersection analysis across groups. 4. There is a separation of functional contributions of the lateral parietal operculum ŽLPO. and the cortex lining the anterior part of the intra-parietal sulcus ŽIPA.. The LPO engaging in somatosensory analysis of microgeometry, the IPA engaging in analysis of macrogeometry. This indicates that parallel processing streams may appear in the somatosensory cortices. 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