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Thickness-based correlations of cortical areas involved in senses, speech and cognitive processes
Ioannis Mavridis, Konstantinos Lontos, Sophia Anagnostopoulou, Department of Anatomy, University of Athens School of Medicine, 11527 Athens, Greece
Author contributions: Mavridis I and Lontos K performed the experiments and wrote the paper; Mavridis I designed the study; Anagnostopoulou S provided the collection of all the human material.
Correspondence to: Ioannis Mavridis, MD, PhD, Department of Anatomy, University of Athens School of Medicine, Mikras Assias str. 75, Goudi, 11527 Athens, Greece. pap-van@otenet.gr
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Received: January 27, 2013
Revised: May 28, 2013
Accepted: June 18, 2013
Published online: September 28, 2013
Revised: May 28, 2013
Accepted: June 18, 2013
Published online: September 28, 2013
Core Tip
Core tip: Our primary purpose was to explore the existence of potential correlations of cortical thickness between different functional areas of the human brain. Our material consisted of 38 formalin-fixated cerebral hemispheres. We examined eight specific cortical areas at each hemisphere. We found several statistically significant correlations. Our results suggest that there could be a potentially stronger impact for objects placed in the left inferior quarter of the visual field. Our study also revealed several thickness-based correlations among different functional cortical areas. Most of them seem to have a more or less rational explanation.