Cerebral Cortex, Vol. 11, No. 4, 312-321,
April 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press
Somatotopy in Human Primary Motor and Somatosensory Hand Representations Revisited
tík1,21 Department of Neurology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA, , 2 Center for Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA , 3 Department of Radiology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA and , 4 Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
High-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging of healthy volunteers was used to study the functional anatomy of the human primary motor (M1) and somatosensory (S1) cortical hand representations during simple movements of thumb, little finger and wrist and a sequential movement of the middle three fingers. Rest served as a control state. The results demonstrated an orderly somatotopy in both M1 and S1, even though the cortical areas active with individual movements significantly overlapped. Moreover, the activation patterns in M1 and S1 differed in three aspects: (i) S1 activation was distributed into significantly more clusters than M1 and the primary cluster was smaller; (ii) the overlaps of areas active with different movements were significantly larger in M1 than in S1; (iii) the difference between the three-finger sequential movement and the single-finger movements was more pronounced in S1 than in M1. The sequence-activated S1 cortex was distributed into significantly more clusters. There was also a trend for a bigger volume difference between sequence and the single finger movements in S1 than M1. These data suggest that while the distributed character dominates in M1 and S1, a somatotopic arrangement exists for both M1 and S1 hand representations, with the S1 somatotopy being more discrete and segregated, in contrast to the more integrated and overlapping somatotopy in M1.
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