Dear Katarina,
well, this depends on the context. For example there might be a large cluster with the peak falling into a certain region but the major part of the cluster lying within another label. A peak label might then be misleading. Neuroanatomists might also prefer particular terms (something with gyrus and sulcus), neuroscientists might prefer something with cortex or related to function (frontal eye field, MT+). For frontal subregions, especially the orbital and ventral ones, different researchers prefer different labels for the same region or interpret the same label differently, as there is no consensus.
Common toolboxes / brain atlases:
- WFU Pickatlas (Brodmann areas and other labels, based on Talairach brain atlas mapped into MNI space)
- AAL (anatomical labels, based on a single subject)
- n30r83 (probabilistic anatomical labels, 30 subjects)
- LPBA40 (probabilistic anatomical labels, 40 subjects)
- Anatomy toolbox (cytoarchitectonic labels, based on post-mortem brains)
Best,
Helmut
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