area

Area is the quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional figure or shape, or planar lamina, in the plane.

Surface area is its analog on the two-dimensional surface of a three-dimensional object. Area can be understood as the amount of material with a given thickness that would be necessary to fashion a model of the shape, or the amount of paint necessary to cover the surface with a single coat.

Example:

Broca area

It is the two-dimensional analog of the length of a curve (a one-dimensional concept) or the volume of a solid (a three-dimensional concept).


The human cerebral cortex has been estimated to contain anywhere from ~50 to ~200 areas per hemisphere. However, attaining a consensus whole-cortex parcellation has been difficult because of practical and technical challenges 1)


1)
Glasser MF, Coalson TS, Robinson EC, Hacker CD, Harwell J, Yacoub E, Ugurbil K, Andersson J, Beckmann CF, Jenkinson M, Smith SM, Van Essen DC. A multi-modal parcellation of human cerebral cortex. Nature. 2016 Aug 11;536(7615):171-8. PubMed PMID: 27437579; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4990127.
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