The Retrocalcarine Sulcus Is Functionally Distinct Between Macaques and Humans Michael Arcaro (
[email protected] ) University of Pennsylvania https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4612-9921 Margaret S. Livingstone Harvard Medical School Kendrick N. Kay University of Minnesota Twin Cities: University of Minnesota Twin Cities Kevin S. Weiner University of California Berkeley Research Article Keywords: vision, comparative neuroanatomy, striate cortex, calcarine sulcus, human, macaque Posted Date: May 17th, 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-529574/v1 License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Read Full License The retrocalcarine sulcus is functionally distinct between macaques and humans Michael J. Arcaro1, Margaret S. Livingstone2, Kendrick N. Kay3, Kevin S. Weiner4,5 1 Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19146 2 Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115 3 Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR), Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455 4 Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 5 Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 Corresponding Author: Kevin S. Weiner, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720,
[email protected] ABSTRACT Primate cerebral cortex is highly convoluted with much of the cortical surface buried in sulcal folds. The origins of cortical folding and its functional relevance has been a major focus of systems and cognitive neuroscience. Stereotyped patterns of cortical folding across individuals and multiple primate species indicate common evolutionary pressures in their development. However, foundational questions regarding organizing principles shared across species remain unanswered.