A Surface-based Analysis of Language Lateralization and Cortical Asymmetry

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1477-1492

  Greve, Douglas N ^a   Van der Haegen, Lise ^b   Cai, Qing ^b,c,d   Stufflebeam, Steven ^a   Sabuncu, Mert R ^a,e   Fischl, Bruce ^a,e   Brysbaert, Marc ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit ^*  (France)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HESCHL GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LANGUAGE; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LEFT HEMISPHERE DOMINANCE; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARS OPERCULARIS; PARS TRIANGULARIS; PLANUM TEMPORALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE DOMINANCE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OXYGEN;

EID: 84880634468     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00405     Document Type: Article

References (83)

1. Amunts, K., Weiss, P. H., Mohlberg, H., Pieperhoff, P., Eickhoff, S., Gurd, J. M., et al. (2004). Analysis of neural mechanisms underlying verbal fluency in cytoarchitectonically defined stereotaxic space-the roles of Brodmann areas 44 and 45. Neuroimage, 22, 42-56.
2. Ashburner, J., & Friston, K. J. (2000). Voxel-based morphometry- The methods. Neuroimage, 11, 805-821.
3. Ben-Shachar, M., Dougherty, R. F., Deutsch, G. K., & Wandell, B. A. (2007). Differential sensitivity to words and shapes in ventral occipito-temporal cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 17, 1604-1611.
4. Benson, D. F., & Geschwind, N. (1985). Aphasia and related disorders: A clinical approach. In M. M. Mesulam (Ed.), Principles of behavioral neurology (pp. 193-228). Philadelphia, PA: FA Davis.
5. Benson, R. R., FitzGerald, D. B., LeSueur, L. L., Kennedy, D. N., Kwong, K. K., Buchbinder, B. R., et al. (1999). Language dominance determined by whole brain functional MRI in patients with brain lesions. Neurology, 52, 798-809.
6. Binder, J. R., Swanson, S. J., Hammeke, T. A., Morris, G. L., Mueller, W. M., Fischer, M., et al. (1996). Determination of language dominance using functional MRI: A comparison with the Wada test. Neurology, 46, 978-984.
7. Brazdil, M., Zakopcan, J., Kuba, R., Fanfrdlova, Z., & Rektor, I. (2003). Atypical hemispheric language dominance in left temporal lobe epilepsy as a result of the reorganization of language functions. Epilepsy & Behavior, 4, 414-419.
8. Cai, Q., Lavidor, M., Brysbaert, M., Paulignan, Y., & Nazir, T. A. (2008). Cerebral lateralization of frontal lobe language processes and lateralization of the posterior visual word processing system. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 672-681.
9. Cai, Q., Paulignan, Y., Brysbaert, M., Ibarrola, D., & Nazir, T. A. (2010). The left ventral occipito-temporal response to words depends on language lateralization but not on visual familiarity. Cerebral Cortex, 20, 1153-1163.
10. Cai, Q., Van der Haegen, L., & Brysbaert, M. (2013). Complementary hemispheric specialization for language production and visuospatial attention. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., 110, E322-E330.
11. Carreiras, M., Pattamadilok, C., Meseguer, E., Barber, H., & Devlin, J. T. (2012). Broca's area plays a causal role in morphosyntactic processing. Neuropsychologia, 50, 816-820.
12. Cohen, L., Dehaene, S., Naccache, L., Lehericy, S., Dehaene- Lambertz, G., Henaff, M. A., et al. (2000). The visual word form area: Spatial and temporal characterization of an initial stage of reading in normal subjects and posterior split-brain patients. Brain, 123, 291-307.
13. Dale, A. M., Fischl, B., & Sereno, M. I. (1999). Cortical surfacebased analysis I: Segmentation and surface reconstruction. Neuroimage, 9, 179-194.
14. Dehaene, S., & Cohen, L. (2011). The unique role of the visual word form area in reading. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 15, 254-262.
15. Desai, R., Liebenthal, E., Waldron, E., & Binder, J. R. (2008). Left posterior temporal regions are sensitive to auditory categorization. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 1174-1188.
16. Desikan, R. S., Segonne, F., Fischl, B., Quinn, B. T., Dickerson, B. C., Blacker, D., et al. (2006). An automated labeling system for subdividing the human cerebral cortex on MRI scans into gyral based regions of interest. Neuroimage, 31, 968-980.
17. Destrieux, C., Fischl, B., Dale, A., & Halgren, E. (2010). Automatic parcellation of human cortical gyri and sulci using standard anatomical nomenclature. Neuroimage, 53, 1-15.
18. Dickerson, B. C., Feczko, E., Augustinack, J. C., Pacheco, J., Morris, J. C., Fischl, B., et al. (2009). Differential effects of aging and Alzheimer's disease on medial temporal lobe cortical thickness and surface area. Neurobiology of Aging, 30, 432-440.
19. Dien, J. (2009). A tale of two recognition systems: Implications of the fusiform face area and the visual word form area for lateralized object recognition models. Neuropsychologia, 47, 1-16.
20. Donnan, G. A., Darby, D. G., & Saling, M. M. (1997). Identification of brain region for coordinating speech articulation. Lancet, 349, 221-222.
21. Dorsaint-Pierre, R., Penhune, V. B., Watkins, K. E., Neelin, P., Lerch, J. P., Bouffard, M., et al. (2006). Asymmetries of the planum temporale and Heschl's gyrus: Relationship to language lateralization. Brain, 129, 1164-1176.
22. Dos Santos Sequeira, S., Woerner, W., Walter, C., Kreuder, F., Lueken, U., Westerhausen, R., et al. (2006). Handedness, dichotic-listening ear advantage, and gender effects on planum temporale asymmetry-A volumetric investigation using structural magnetic resonance imaging. Neuropsychologia, 44, 622-636.
23. Eckert, M. A., Leonard, C. M., Possing, E. T., & Binder, J. R. (2006). Uncoupled leftward asymmetries for planum morphology and functional language processing. Brain and Language, 98, 102-111.
24. Eckert, M. A., Lombardino, L. J., Walczak, A. R., Bonihla, L., Leonard, C. M., & Binder, J. R. (2008). Manual and automated measures of superior temporal gyrus asymmetry: Concordant structural predictors of verbal ability in children. Neuroimage, 41, 813-822.
25. Fischl, B., & Dale, A. M. (2000). Measuring the thickness of the human cerebral cortex from magnetic resonance images. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 97, 11044-11049.
26. Fischl, B., Rajendran, N., Busa, E., Augustinack, J., Hinds, O., Yeo, B. T., et al. (2008). Cortical folding patterns and predicting cytoarchitecture. Cerebral Cortex, 18, 1973-1980.
27. Fischl, B., Salat, D. H., Albert, M., Dieterich, M., Haselgrove, C., van der Kouwe, A., et al. (2002). Whole brain segmentation: Automated labeling of neuroanatomical structures in the human brain. Neuron, 33, 341-355.
28. Fischl, B., Sereno, M. I., & Dale, A. M. (1999). Cortical surfacebased analysis. II: Inflation, flattening, and a surface-based coordinate system. Neuroimage, 9, 195-207.
29. Fischl, B., Sereno, M. I., Tootell, R. B. H., & Dale, A. M. (1999). High-resolution intersubject averaging and a coordinate system for the cortical surface. Human Brain Mapping, 8, 272-284.
30. Fischl, B., van der Kouwe, A., Destrieux, C., Halgren, E., Segonne, F., Salat, D. H., et al. (2004). Automatically parcellating the human cerebral cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 14, 11-22.
31. Flynn, F. G., Benson, D. F., & Ardila, A. (1999). Anatomy of the insula-Functional and clinical correlates. Aphasiology, 13, 55-77.
32. Foundas, A. L., Leonard, C. M., Gilmore, R., Fennell, E., & Heilman, K. M. (1994). Planum temporale asymmetry and language dominance. Neuropsychologia, 32, 1225-1231.
33. Frye, R. E., Liederman, J., Malmberg, B., McLean, J., Strickland, D., & Beauchamp, M. S. (2010). Surface area accounts for the relation of gray matter volume to reading-related skills and history of dyslexia. Cerebral Cortex, 20, 2625-2635.
34. Geschwind, N., & Levitsky, W. (1968). Human brain: Left-right asymmetries in temporal speech region. Science, 161, 186-187.
35. Hagler, D. J., Jr., Saygin, A. P., & Sereno, M. I. (2006). Smoothing and cluster thresholding for cortical surface-based group analysis of fMRI data. Neuroimage, 33, 1093-1103.
36. Heim, S., Eickhoff, S. B., & Amunts, K. (2008). Specialisation in Broca's region for semantic, phonological, and syntactic fluency? Neuroimage, 40, 1362-1368.
37. Hickok, G., & Poeppel, D. (2007). The cortical organization of speech processing. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 8, 393-402.
38. Hunter, Z. R., & Brysbaert, M. (2008). Visual half-field experiments are a good measure of cerebral language dominance if used properly: Evidence from fMRI. Neuropsychologia, 46, 316-325.
39. Josse, G., Kherif, F., Flandin, G., Seghier, M. L., & Price, C. J. (2009). Predicting language lateralization from gray matter. Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 13516-13523.
40. Josse, G., Mazoyer, B., Crivello, F., & Tzourio-Mazoyer, N. (2003). Left planum temporale: An anatomical marker of left hemispheric specialization for language comprehension. Brain Research, Cognitive Brain Research, 18, 1-14.
41. Kanwisher, N., McDermott, J., & Chun, M. M. (1997). The fusiform face area: A module in human extrastriate cortex specialized for face perception. Journal of Neuroscience, 17, 4302-4311.
42. Keller, S. S., Highley, J. R., Garcia-Finana, M., Sluming, V., Rezaie, R., & Roberts, N. (2007). Sulcal variability, stereological measurement and asymmetry of Broca's area on MR images. Journal of Anatomy, 211, 534-555.
43. Keller, S. S., Roberts, N., Garcia-Finana, M., Mohammadi, S., Ringelstein, E. B., Knecht, S., et al. (2011). Can the languagedominant hemisphere be predicted by brain anatomy? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 2013-2029.
44. Knecht, S., Drager, B., Deppe, M., Bobe, L., Lohmann, H., Floel, A., et al. (2000). Handedness and hemispheric language dominance in healthy humans. Brain, 123, 2512-2518.
45. Kosslyn, S. M. (1987). Seeing and imagining in the cerebral hemispheres: A computational approach. Psychological Review, 94, 148-175.
46. Loring, D. W., Meador, K. J., Lee, G. P., Murro, A. M., Smith, J. R., Flanigin, H. F., et al. (1990). Cerebral language lateralization: Evidence from intracarotid amobarbital testing. Neuropsychologia, 28, 831-838.
47. Luders, E., Gaser, C., Jancke, L., & Schlaug, G. (2004). A voxelbased approach to gray matter asymmetries. Neuroimage, 22, 656-664.
48. Oldfield, R. C. (1971). The assessment and analysis of handedness: The Edinburgh inventory. Neuropsychologia, 9, 97-113.
49. Palaniyappan, L., & Liddle, P. F. (2012). Differential effects of surface area, gyrification and cortical thickness on voxel based morphometric deficits in schizophrenia. Neuroimage, 60, 693-699.
50. Panizzon, M. S., Fennema-Notestine, C., Eyler, L. T., Jernigan, T. L., Prom-Wormley, E., Neale, M., et al. (2009). Distinct genetic influences on cortical surface area and cortical thickness. Cerebral Cortex, 19, 2728-2735.
51. Penhune, V. B., Cismaru, R., Dorsaint-Pierre, R., Petitto, L. A., & Zatorre, R. J. (2003). The morphometry of auditory cortex in the congenitally deaf measured using MRI. Neuroimage, 20, 1215-1225.
52. Penhune, V. B., Zatorre, R. J., MacDonald, J. D., & Evans, A. C. (1996). Interhemispheric anatomical differences in human primary auditory cortex: Probabilistic mapping and volume measurement from magnetic resonance scans. Cerebral Cortex, 6, 661-672.
53. Plaut, D. C., & Behrmann, M. (2011). Complementary neural representations for faces and words: A computational exploration. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 28, 251-275.
54. Postelnicu, G., Zollei, L., & Fischl, B. (2009). Combined volumetric and surface registration. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 28, 508-522.
55. Price, C. J. (2012). A review and synthesis of the first 20 years of PET and fMRI studies of heard speech, spoken language and reading. Neuroimage, 62, 816-847.
56. Price, C. J. (2000). The anatomy of language: Contributions from functional neuroimaging. Journal of Anatomy, 197, 335-359.
57. Price, C. J., & Devlin, J. T. (2011). The interactive account of ventral occipitotemporal contributions to reading. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 15, 246-253.
58. Pujol, J., Deus, J., Losilla, J. M., & Capdevila, A. (1999). Cerebral lateralization of language in normal left-handed people studied by functional MRI. Neurology, 52, 1038-1043.
59. Rademacher, J., Caviness, V. S., Jr., Steinmetz, H., & Galaburda, A. M. (1993). Topographical variation of the human primary cortices: Implications for neuroimaging, brain mapping, and neurobiology. Cerebral Cortex, 3, 313-329.
60. Raschle, N. M., Chang, M., & Gaab, N. (2011). Structural brain alterations associated with dyslexia predate reading onset. Neuroimage, 57, 742-749.
61. Richardson, F. M., Ramsden, S., Ellis, C., Burnett, S., Megnin, O., Catmur, C., et al. (2011). Auditory short-term memory capacity correlates with gray matter density in the left posterior STS in cognitively normal and dyslexic adults. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 3746-3756.
62. Risse, G. L., Gates, J. R., & Fangman, M. C. (1997). A reconsideration of bilateral language representation based on the intracarotid amobarbital procedure. Brain and Cognition, 33, 118-132.
63. Seghier, M. L., & Price, C. J. (2011). Explaining left lateralization for words in the ventral occipitotemporal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 31, 14745-14753.
64. Segonne, F., Dale, A. M., Busa, E., Glessner, M., Salat, D., Hahn, H. K., et al. (2004). A hybrid approach to the skull stripping problem in MRI. Neuroimage, 22, 1060-1075.
65. Spreer, J., Arnold, S., Quiske, A., Wohlfarth, R., Ziyeh, S., Altenmuller, D., et al. (2002). Determination of hemisphere dominance for language: Comparison of frontal and temporal fMRI activation with intracarotid amytal testing. Neuroradiology, 44, 467-474.
66. Springer, J. A., Binder, J. R., Hammeke, T. A., Swanson, S. J., Frost, J. A., Bellgowan, P. S., et al. (1999). Language dominance in neurologically normal and epilepsy subjects: A functional MRI study. Brain, 122, 2033-2046.
67. Taylor, J. C., & Downing, P. E. (2011). Division of labor between lateral and ventral extrastriate representations of faces, bodies, and objects. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 4122-4137.
68. Toga, A. W., & Thompson, P. M. (2003). Mapping brain asymmetry. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 4, 37-48.
69. Tucholka, A., Fritsch, V., Poline, J. B., & Thirion, B. (2012). An empirical comparison of surface-based and volume-based group studies in neuroimaging. Neuroimage, 63, 1443-1453.
70. Turkeltaub, P. E., & Coslett, H. B. (2010). Localization of sublexical speech perception components. Brain and Language, 114, 1-15.
71. Tzourio, N., Nkanga-Ngila, B., & Mazoyer, B. (1998). Left planum temporale surface correlates with functional dominance during story listening. NeuroReport, 9, 829-833.
72. Tzourio-Mazoyer, N., Landeau, B., Papathanassiou, D., Crivello, F., Etard, O., Delcroix, N., et al. (2002). Automated anatomical labeling of activations in SPM using a macroscopic anatomical parcellation of the MNI MRI single-subject brain. Neuroimage, 15, 273-289.
73. Van der Haegen, L., Cai, Q., & Brysbaert, M. (2012). Colateralization of Broca's area and the visual word form area in left-handers: fMRI evidence. Brain and Language, 122, 171-178.
74. Van der Haegen, L., Cai, Q., Seurinck, R., & Brysbaert, M. (2011). Further fMRI validation of the visual half field technique as an indicator of language laterality: A large-group analysis. Neuropsychologia, 49, 2879-2888.
75. Van der Haegen, L., Westerhausen, R., Hugdahl, K., & Brysbaert, M. (2013). Speech dominance is a better predictor of functional brain asymmetry than handedness: A combined fMRI word generation and behavioral dichotic listening study. Neuropsychologia, 51, 91-97.
76. Vingerhoets, G., Alderweireldt, A. S., Vandemaele, P., Cai, Q., Van der Haegen, L., Brysbaert, M., et al. (2013). Praxis and language are linked: Evidence from co-lateralization in individuals with atypical language dominance. Cortex, 49, 172-183.
77. Wada, J., & Rasmussen, T. (1960). Intracarotid-injection of sodium amytal for the lateralization of cerebral speech dominance, experimental and clinical observations. Journal of Neurosurgery, 17, 266-282.
78. Watkins, K. E., Paus, T., Lerch, J. P., Zijdenbos, A., Collins, D. L., Neelin, P., et al. (2001). Structural asymmetries in the human brain: A voxel-based statistical analysis of 142 MRI scans. Cerebral Cortex, 11, 868-877.
79. Willems, R. M., Peelen, M. V., & Hagoort, P. (2010). Cerebral lateralization of face-selective and body-selective visual areas depends on handedness. Cerebral Cortex, 20, 1719-1725.
80. Winkler, A. M., Kochunov, P., Blangero, J., Almasy, L., Zilles, K., Fox, P. T., et al. (2010). Cortical thickness or gray matter volume? The importance of selecting the phenotype for imaging genetics studies. Neuroimage, 53, 1135-1146.
81. Winkler, A. M., Sabuncu, M. R., Yeo, B. T., Fischl, B., Greve, D. N., Kochunov, P., et al. (2012). Measuring and comparing brain cortical surface area and other areal quantities. Neuroimage, 61, 1428-1443.
82. Ziegler, J., & Ferrand, L. (1988). Orthography shapes the perception of speech: The consistency effect in auditory word recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 5, 683-689.
83. Zollei, L., Stevens, A., Huber, K., Kakunoori, S., & Fischl, B. (2010). Improved tractography alignment using combined volumetric and surface registration. Neuroimage, 51, 206-213.