Medial Parieto-occipital Sulcus


It occupies a 'C'-shaped belt of cortex whose upper branch is in the depth of the parieto-occipital sulcus (POS) and lower one is in the depth of the medial parieto-occipital sulcus (POM), with the medial surface of the brain as a zone of junction between the two branches.  

The equivalent sources of the parietal signals clustered within 1 cm3 in the medial parieto-occipital sulcus and did not differ significantly between the stimuli. This result strengthens our previous suggestion that the medial parieto-occipital sulcus is the human homologue of the monkey V6 complex, characterized by, for example, lack of retinotopy and the absence of relative foveal magnification..  

Responses to hemifield luminance stimuli also had an occipital component, but they were dominated by activation of the medial parieto-occipital sulcus (POS) 60-70 ms later.  


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