Stefan Geyer • Robert Turner
Editors

2013

From Brodmann’s Post-Mortem Map to in Vivo Mapping with High-Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging

A fundamental goal of brain research is to elucidate the functional properties of the structural elements of the brain, at an appropriate organizational scale. One major scientific milestone in this regard was the publication of Korbinian Brodmann’s famous map of the cerebral cortex in 1909. This map defines around 40 structural areas in the human cortex based on differences in cytoarchitecture (i.e., size, shape, and topographic arrangement of nerve cells).