Michael Petrides

Professor


Stewart Biological Sciences Bldg.
Room N7/6, 398-6131
michael.petrides at mcgill.ca

Research Areas

Cognition-Language-Perception, Behavioral Neuroscience

Research Summary

Prof. Petrides's research interests lie in the area of neuropsychology/cognitive neuroscience and involve the analysis of the functions of the frontal, temporal, and parietal neocortex and related subcortical neural structures.  This is pursued by investigations of the cognitive impairments observed in patients with focal brain lesions, by the analysis of the behavioral effects of lesions in animals, and functional neuroimaging studies with PET and EMRI.

Selected References

Petrides, M.  Lateral prefrontal cortex: Architectonic and functional organization. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, 2005, 360, 781-795.

Petrides, M., Cadoret, G., and Mackey, S.  Orofacial somatomotor responses in the macaque monkey homologue of Broca’s area. Nature, 2005, 435, 1235-1238.

Petrides, M.  The rostral-caudal axis of cognitive control within the lateral frontal cortex.  In From Monkey Brain to Human Brain. A Fyssen Foundation Symposium, S. Dehaene, J.-R. Duhamel, M.C. Hauser, and G. Rizzolatti (Eds.), Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2005, Ch. 15, pp. 293-314.

Kostopoulos, P., Albanese, M.-C., and Petrides, M.  Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and tactile memory disambiguation in the human brain.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 2007, 104, 10223-10228.

Amiez, C. and Petrides, M.  Selective involvement of the mid-dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in the coding of the serial order of visual stimuli in working memory.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 2007, 104, 13786-13791.

Cadoret, G. and Petrides, M.  Ventrolateral prefrontal neuronal activity related to active controlled memory retrieval in nonhuman primates.  Cerebral Cortex, 2007, 17, i27-i40.

Champod, A.-S. and Petrides, M.  Dissociable roles of the posterior parietal and the prefrontal cortex in manipulation and monitoring processes.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 2007, 104, 14837-14842.

Petrides, M. and Pandya, D.N.  Efferent association pathways from the rostral prefrontal cortex in the macaque monkey.  Journal of Neuroscience, 2007, 27, 11573-11586.

Petrides, M.  The orbitofrontal cortex: Novelty, deviation from expectation, and memory. In Linking Affect to Action, G. Schoenbaum, Gottfried, J.A., Murray, E.A., and Ramus, S.J. (eds.), Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2007, Vol. 1121, pp. 33-53.

Petrides, M. Selection between competing responses based on conditional rules. In Neuroscience of Rule-Guided Behavior, S.A. Bunge and J.D. Wallis (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2008, Ch. 1, pp. 3-21.

Amiez, C., Kostopoulos, P., Champod, A.-S., Collins, D.L., Doyon, J., Del Maestro, R., and Petrides, M.  Preoperative functional magnetic resonance imaging assessment of higher-order cognitive function in patients undergoing surgery for brain tumors.  Journal of Neurosurgery, 2008, 108, 258-268.

Iaria, G., Robbins, S., and Petrides, M.  Three-dimensional probabilistic maps of the occipital sulci of the human brain in standardized stereotaxic space. Neuroscience, 2008, 151, 174-185.

Kostopoulos, P. and Petrides, M.  Left mid-ventrolateral prefrontal cortex: underlying principles of function. European Journal of Neuroscience, 2008, 27, 1037-1049.

Petrides, M.  (Monchi, O., Petrides, M., Doyon, J., Postuma, R. B., Worsley, K., & Dagher, A.)  Neural bases of set-shifting deficits in Parkinson’s disease.  Journal of Neuroscience, 24, 702-710, (2004).

Petrides, M.  (Djordjevic, J., Zatorre, R. J., Petrides, M., & Jones-Gotman, M.)  The mind’s nose.  Effects of odor and visual imagery on odor detection.  Psychological Science, 15, 143-148, (2004).

Petrides, M.  (Chen, J.-K., Johnston, K. M., Frey, S., Petrides, M., Worsley, K., & Ptito, A.) Functional abnormalities in symptomatic concussed athletes: an fMRI study NeuroImage, 22, 68-82, (2004).

Petrides, M.  (Frey, S., Kostopoulos, P., & Petrides, M.) Orbitofrontal contribution to auditory encoding.  NeuroImage, 22, 1384-1389, (2004).

Petrides, M.  (Tomaiuolo, F., Carlesimo, G. A., Di Paola., M., Petrides, M., Fera, F., Bonanni, R.,  Formisano, R., Pasqualetti, P., & Caltagirone, C.)  Gross morphology and morphometric sequelae in the hippocampus, fornix, and corpus callosum of patients with severe non-missile traumatic brain injury without macroscopically detectable lesions : a T1 weighted MRI study.  Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 75, 1314-1322, (2004).

Petrides, M.  (Bohbot, V. D., Iaria, G., & Petrides, M.) Hippocampal function and spatial memory: evidence from functional neuroimaging in healthy participants and performance of patients with medial temporal lobe resections.  Neuropsychology, 18, 418-425, (2004).

Petrides, M.  (Sziklas, V. & Petrides, M.) Egocentric conditional associative learning:  Effects of restricted lesions to the hippocampo-mammillo-thalamic pathway.  Hippcampus, 14, 931-934, (2004).

Petrides, M.  (Frey, S., Comeau, R., Hynes, B., Mackay, S., & Petrides, M.)  Frameless stereotaxy in the nonhuman primate.  NeuroImage, 23, 1226-1234, (2004).

Petrides, M.  (Henry, J., Petrides, M., St-Laurent, M., & Sziklas, V.)  Spatial conditional associative learning: effects of thalamo-hippocampal disconnection in rats.  Neuroreport, 15, 2427-2431, (2004).

Petrides, M.  (Kostopoulos, P., Amiez, C., & Petrides, M.) The ventrolateral prefontal cortex in verbal active retrieval [Abstract].  NeuroImage, 22 (Suppl. 1), Poster No. TU38, (2004).

Petrides, M.  (Germann, J., & Petrides, M.)  Morphological features and variability of the inferior frontal gyrus in the human brain.  FENS Abstract, Vol. 2 A008.5, (2004).

Petrides, M.  (Cadoret, G., & Petrides, M.)  Neuronal mechanisms underlying active retrieval processing in the monkey.  Program No. 324.3. 2004  Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner, Washington, D. C.:  Society for Neuroscience, Online, (2004)

Petrides, M.  (Monchi, O., Petrides, M., Doyon, J., & Strafella, A.)  FMRI studies of cognitive deficits in Parkinson’s disease.  Program No.  375.2.  2004 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary planner, Washington, D. C.:  Society for Neuroscience, Online, (2004). 

Petrides, M.  (Petrides, M., & Pandya, D. N.)  The frontal cortex.  In the Human Nervous System, G. Paxinos and J. K. Mai (Eds.), San Diego:  Elsevier Academic Press, 2nd Edition, Ch. 25, pp. 950-972, (2004)

Updated: August 1, 2008
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