Metabolic organization of macaque visual cortex reflects visual field topography and perceptual specialization.
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- #!/bin/bash
- # Usage: registerRetino.sh <target_image> [<moving_image>] [<functional_map>]
- # Assign input arguments to variables
- TARGET_IMAGE=${1:-MPRAGE_SS.nii.gz}
- MOVING_IMAGE=${2:-NMT_v2.0_sym_SS.nii.gz}
- FUNCTIONAL_MAP=${3:-AvgRetino_NMT2.0sym.nii.gz}
- # Define downsampled versions
- DOWNSAMPLED_TARGET="downsampled_target.nii.gz"
- DOWNSAMPLED_MOVING="downsampled_moving.nii.gz"
- # Clean up old outputs to avoid file conflicts
- rm -rf step1 step2 step3 step4 step5 AvgRetino_syn2fixed.nii.gz
- # Create directories for intermediate files
- mkdir -p step1 step2 step3 step4 step5
- # Step 1: Downsample both the moving and fixed images to match the resolution of the functional map (1 1 1 mm)
- 3dresample -overwrite -dxyz 1 1 1 -prefix step1/$DOWNSAMPLED_TARGET -input $TARGET_IMAGE
- 3dresample -overwrite -dxyz 1 1 1 -prefix step1/$DOWNSAMPLED_MOVING -input $MOVING_IMAGE
- # From here on out, fixed and moving are the downsampled versions
- FIXED="step1/$DOWNSAMPLED_TARGET"
- MOVING="step1/$DOWNSAMPLED_MOVING"
- # Step 2: Use flirt to register the moving image to the fixed image
- flirt -in $MOVING \
- -ref $FIXED \
- -out step2/moving_flirt2fixed.nii.gz \
- -omat step2/moving_flirt2fixed.mat \
- -bins 256 -cost corratio \
- -searchrx -180 180 -searchry -180 180 -searchrz -180 180 -dof 6 \
- -interp trilinear
- # Step 3: Runs antsRegistration to register the flirted moving image to the fixed image
- antsRegistrationSyN.sh -f $FIXED \
- -m step2/moving_flirt2fixed.nii.gz \
- -d 3 -o step3/moving_syn2fixed -n 4
- # Step 4: Resample the functional map to the moving image
- 3dresample -overwrite -master $MOVING -prefix step4/AvgRetino_resamp.nii.gz -input $FUNCTIONAL_MAP
- # Step 5: Applies the flirt transform to the resampled functional map using NN interpolation
- flirt -in step4/AvgRetino_resamp.nii.gz \
- -applyxfm \
- -init step2/moving_flirt2fixed.mat \
- -out step5/AvgRetino_flirt2moving.nii.gz \
- -paddingsize 0.0 -interp nearestneighbour \
- -ref $FIXED
- # Step 6: Applies ANTs transform to the functional map post flirt transform
- antsApplyTransforms \
- -e 3 \
- --interpolation NearestNeighbor \
- -i step5/AvgRetino_flirt2moving.nii.gz \
- -r $FIXED \
- -t step3/moving_syn2fixed1Warp.nii.gz \
- -t step3/moving_syn2fixed0GenericAffine.mat \
- -o AvgRetino_syn2fixed.nii.gz
- # Step 7: Copy attributes from original dataset
- 3drefit -copyaux $FUNCTIONAL_MAP AvgRetino_syn2fixed.nii.gz
registerRetino.sh at commit 1f99b21, no license · at the source
Overview
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Division of Sensory and Cognitive Brain Mapping, Department of System Neuroscience, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
- Graduate Institute for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Core for Spin Life Sciences, Okazaki Collaborative Platform, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Neuroscience, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Abstract
Neural activity depends on energy metabolism, yet the extent to which regional variation in cortical metabolic architecture reflects the functional and perceptual demands of visual processing remains unclear. In the primate visual system, retinotopic eccentricity, the topographic mapping of visual space relative to gaze, provides a large-scale organizational axis along which spatial resolution and selectivity for behaviorally relevant visual categories vary systematically. Here, we tested whether cortical metabolic architecture reflects this axis by aligning in vivo fMRI maps of eccentricity and visual category selectivity with ex vivo cytochrome oxidase (CO) histology, a marker of oxidative metabolism, in macaque visual cortex. We found that the middle lateral (ML) face-selective region, which is biased toward central vision, exhibited higher CO intensity than the lateral place patch (LPP), a scene-selective region biased toward peripheral vision. More broadly, CO intensity covaried with eccentricity within both ML and LPP and across occipitotemporal visual cortex, though eccentricity only partially accounted for the elevated CO in ML. These findings reveal a close correspondence between cortical metabolic architecture and retinotopic organization, suggesting that the distribution of cortical metabolic resources is shaped by both visual field organization and the processing demands of perceptual specialization.
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Oishi, H., Berezovskii, V. K., Livingstone, M. S., Weiner, K. S., & Arcaro, M. J. (2026). Metabolic organization of macaque visual cortex reflects visual field topography and perceptual specialization. PLoS biology, 24(6), e3003847. https://
BibTeX
@article{oishi2026metabo
author = {Oishi, Hiroki and Berezovskii, Vladimir K and Livingstone, Margaret S and Weiner, Kevin S and Arcaro, Michael J},
title = {{Metabolic organization of macaque visual cortex reflects visual field topography and perceptual specialization}},
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year = {2026},
month = jun,
volume = {24},
number = {6},
pages = {e3003847},
publisher = {PLOS},
issn = {1544-9173},
doi = {10.1371/
url = {https://
pmid = {42258495},
pmcid = {PMC13286273}
}
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