{"id":66,"date":"2008-05-27T02:10:54","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T09:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:28:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:28:46","slug":"brain-art-aal-patchwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/brain-art-aal-patchwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Art: AAL Patchwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/prefrontal.org\/files\/art\/AAL-Patchwork.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/aal-patchwork.jpg\" alt=\"AAL-Patchwork.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p>This is a rendering done in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slicer.org\/\">Slicer<\/a> of the numerous brain regions defined in the Automated Anatomical Labeling (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyceron.fr\/freeware\/\">AAL<\/a>) digital brain atlas.  The AAL atlas was constructed through the identification of major and minor sulci on a T1 MRI with subsequent labeling based on anatomical location.  It doesn&#8217;t have any relationship to cortical cytoarchitecture, but is still a useful tool to let you know what is in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>I first made this rendering several years ago and since that time I have really fallen in love with it.  The picture really brings together the patchwork complexity of the cortical and cerebellar surface.  This is an important point &#8211; that there is much more to the brain than just two halves or four lobes.  It is also very clear that there are asymmetries between the two hemispheres of the brain.  The shape of a region in the left hemisphere has little relationship with the configuration of its counterpart in the right hemisphere.  I dig it.<\/p>\n<p>If you click on the above image it will take you to a larger version you can download.  Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>* Tzourio-Mazoyer N, Landeau B, Papathanassiou D, Crivello F, Etard O, Delcroix N, Mazoyer B, Joliot M. (2002).  Automated anatomical labeling of activations in SPM using a macroscopic anatomical parcellation of the MNI MRI single-subject brain. Neuroimage 15(1): 273-289.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a rendering done in Slicer of the numerous brain regions defined in the Automated Anatomical Labeling (AAL) digital brain atlas. The AAL atlas was constructed through the identification of major and minor sulci on a T1 MRI with subsequent labeling based on anatomical location. It doesn&#8217;t have any relationship to cortical cytoarchitecture, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cognitive-neuroscience","category-mri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}