AUTHOR=ten Donkelaar Hans J. , Tzourio-Mazoyer Nathalie , Mai Jürgen K. 

TITLE=Toward a Common Terminology for the Gyri and Sulci of the Human Cerebral Cortex

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

VOLUME=12

YEAR=2018

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroanatomy/articles/10.3389/fnana.2018.00093

DOI=10.3389/fnana.2018.00093

ISSN=1662-5129

ABSTRACT=<p>The gyri and sulci of the human brain were defined by pioneers such as Louis-Pierre Gratiolet and Alexander Ecker, and extensified by, among others, Dejerine (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B23">1895</xref>) and von Economo and Koskinas (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B106">1925</xref>). Extensive discussions of the cerebral sulci and their variations were presented by Ono et al. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B68">1990</xref>), Duvernoy (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B27">1992</xref>), Tamraz and Comair (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B89">2000</xref>), and Rhoton (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B75">2007</xref>). An anatomical parcellation of the spatially normalized single high resolution T1 volume provided by the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI; Collins, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B21">1994</xref>; Collins et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B22">1998</xref>) was used for the macroscopical labeling of functional studies (Tzourio-Mazoyer et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B98">2002</xref>; Rolls et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B77">2015</xref>). In the standard atlas of the human brain by Mai et al. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B58">2016</xref>), the terminology from Mai and Paxinos (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B59">2012</xref>) is used. It contains an extensively analyzed individual brain hemisphere in the MNI-space. A recent revision of the terminology on the central nervous system in the <italic>Terminologia Anatomica</italic> (TA, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B87">1998</xref>) was made by the Working Group Neuroanatomy of the Federative International Programme for Anatomical Terminology (FIPAT) of the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists (IFAA), and posted online as the <italic>Terminologia Neuroanatomica</italic> (TNA, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B95">2017</xref>: <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://FIPAT.library.dal.ca" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">http://FIPAT.library.dal.ca</ext-link>) as the official FIPAT terminology. This review deals with the various terminologies for the cerebral gyri and sulci, aiming for a common terminology.</p>