Is left fronto-temporal connectivity essential for syntax? Effective connectivity, tractography and performance in left-hemisphere damaged patients

NeuroImage

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 656-664

  Papoutsi, Marina ^a   Stamatakis, Emmanuel A ^a,c   Griffiths, John ^a   Marslen Wilson, William D ^b   Tyler, Lorraine K ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Effective connectivity; Syntactic deficits; Tracts

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARCUATE FASCICULUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; PARIETAL OPERCULUM; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; STROKE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; STROKE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 80051797535     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.06.036     Document Type: Article

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