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Hence, it has remained unclear if the overlap of two functions in the PPC is the product of averaging, or they truly stem from a common profile of activity within the same neuronal populations in the human PPC. In the current study, we leveraged the anatomical precision and high signal-to-noise ratio of intracranial electrocorticography and probed the engagement of discrete PPC neuronal populations in seven neurosurgical patients (n = 179 total PPC sites covered; 26 sites on average per individual participant). We aimed to study the extent of parietal activations within each individual brain during visuospatial attention versus arithmetic tasks and the profile of electrophysiological responses within a given recording site during these tasks. Our findings indicated that about 40% of PPC sites did not respond to either visuospatial attention or arithmetic stimuli\u2014or episodic memory conditions that were used as an adjunct control condition. Of those that were activated during either visuospatial attention or arithmetic conditions, a large majority showed overlapping responses during both visuospatial attention and arithmetic conditions. Most interestingly, responses during arithmetic processing were greatest in sites along the intraparietal sulcus region showing preference to contralateral, instead of ipsilateral, visual probes in the visuospatial attention task. Our results provide novel data about the relationship between numerical and spatial orientation at the neuronal population level and shed light on the complex functional organization of the PPC that could not be attained with noninvasive methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1162\/jocn_a_01775","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,18]],"date-time":"2021-08-18T18:27:55Z","timestamp":1629311275000},"page":"2548-2558","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1162\/mitpressjournals.corrections.policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Overlapping Neuronal Population Responses in the Human Parietal Cortex during Visuospatial Attention and Arithmetic Processing"],"prefix":"10.1162","volume":"33","author":[{"given":"Nan","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Stanford Human Intracranial Cognitive Electrophysiology Program, Stanford University"},{"name":"Stanford University"},{"name":"South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China"}]},{"given":"Pedro","family":"Pinheiro-Chagas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Stanford Human Intracranial Cognitive Electrophysiology Program, Stanford University"},{"name":"Stanford University"}]},{"given":"Clara","family":"Sava-Segal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Stanford Human Intracranial Cognitive Electrophysiology Program, Stanford University"},{"name":"Stanford University"}]},{"given":"Sabine","family":"Kastner","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Princeton University"},{"name":"Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University"}]},{"given":"Qi","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China"}]},{"given":"Josef","family":"Parvizi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Stanford Human Intracranial Cognitive Electrophysiology Program, Stanford University"},{"name":"Stanford University"}]}],"member":"281","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"2021110818062280400_bib1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"189","DOI":"10.1146\/annurev.neuro.25.112701.142922","article-title":"Intentional maps in posterior parietal cortex","volume":"25","author":"Andersen","year":"2002","journal-title":"Annual Review of Neuroscience"},{"key":"2021110818062280400_bib2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1831","DOI":"10.1098\/rstb.2009.0028","article-title":"The parietal cortex and the representation of time, space, number and other magnitudes","volume":"364","author":"Bueti","year":"2009","journal-title":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences"},{"key":"2021110818062280400_bib3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"865","DOI":"10.1016\/j.neuroimage.2009.08.066","article-title":"A common functional brain network for autobiographical, episodic, and semantic memory retrieval","volume":"49","author":"Burianova","year":"2010","journal-title":"Neuroimage"},{"key":"2021110818062280400_bib4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1860","DOI":"10.1126\/science.1138071","article-title":"Top\u2013down versus bottom\u2013up control of attention in the prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices","volume":"315","author":"Buschman","year":"2007","journal-title":"Science"},{"key":"2021110818062280400_bib5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1238","DOI":"10.1016\/j.neuropsychologia.2004.12.017","article-title":"Are numbers special? 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