Human brain atlases are frequently used tools for the analysis of data from functional imaging and neurophysiology studies.
This chapter briefly reviews historical, two- and three-dimensional printed and electronic atlas systems. It emphasizes several
key aspects of such atlases: spatial relationships of macro- and microstructures, their intersubject variability, definition
of reference brains and spatial reference systems, linear and nonlinear registration procedures of data sets of individual
brains to reference brains, and multimodal comparisons of structural and functional data in stereotaxic space. The Appendix
outlines the method of generation of probabilistic cytoarchitectonic maps, and provides addresses of some of the electronic
human brain atlases and software.
Keywords cerebral cortex - cytoarchitecture - human brain mapping - neuroanatomy - probability maps