Place selectivity in medial ventral temporal cortex

We recently quantified place-selective regions relative to cortical folding in human medial ventral temporal cortex. Traditionally referred to as the parahippocampal place area (PPA), we have found that this region is located within a particular anatomical location within the Collateral Sulcus. We cross-validated this location in 24 subjects across two studies in our lab, as well as 494 subjects from the Human Connectome Project and another 26 subjects from Nasr et al., 2014.

Click below to download the most probable location of place selectivity in medial ventral temporal cortex as label files for FreeSurfer:

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rh.CoS.PlaceSelectivity.Weiner.label Most probable location of place selectivity in CoS within the right hemisphere from 24 subjects.
lh.CoS.PlaceSelectivity.Weiner.label Most probable location of place selectivity in CoS within the left hemisphere from 24 subjects.
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Kevin Weiner kweiner@stanford.edu
Kalanit Grill-Spector kalanit@stanford.edu

Citation

Weiner, K.S., Barnett, M.A., Witthoft, N., Golarai, G., Stigliani, A., Kay, K.N., Gomez, J., Natu, V.S., Amunts, K., Zilles, K., & Grill-Spector, K. (2017). Defining the most probable location of the parahippocampal place area using cortex-based alignment and cross-validation, NeuroImage.