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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Brain Imaging

Background:

  • The human precuneus is crucial for diverse high-level cognitive functions.
  • Understanding its functional subdivisions is essential but remains incompletely investigated.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a novel functional parcellation of the human precuneus.
  • To identify biologically meaningful subdivisions based on functional connectivity.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized an eigen clustering (EIC) approach for parcellation.
  • Employed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from the Human Connectome Project.
  • Analyzed precuneus-cortical functional connectivity.

Main Results:

  • Consistently identified six symmetrical and interconnected parcels within the precuneus.
  • Demonstrated distinct functional roles: anterior (sensorimotor), posterior (visual).
  • Revealed a central precuneus with four subregions mediating network interactions (default mode, dorsal attention, frontoparietal control).

Conclusions:

  • The EIC approach provides a functionally coherent parcellation, free from spatial constraints.
  • The identified precuneus subregions align with cortical morphology and show distinct functional segregation and integration.
  • This study offers a refined understanding of human precuneus function and a new brain parcellation scheme.