Fiber anatomy of dorsal and ventral language streams

Brain and Language

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 192-204

  Axer, Hubertus ^a   Klingner, Carsten M ^a   Prescher, Andreas ^b  

^a JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arcuate fasciculus; Connectivity; Extreme capsule fiber system; Inferior fronto occipital fasciculus; Middle longitudinal fascicle

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARCUATE FASCICULUS; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DORSAL LANGUAGE; EXTERNAL CAPSULE; EXTREME CAPSULE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFERIOR FRONTO OCCIPITAL FASCICULUS; LANGUAGE; MEDIAL LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NONHUMAN; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; UNCINATE FASCICULUS; VENTRAL LANGUAGE; WHITE MATTER;

ARCUATE FASCICULUS; CONNECTIVITY; EXTREME CAPSULE FIBER SYSTEM; INFERIOR FRONTO-OCCIPITAL FASCICULUS; MIDDLE LONGITUDINAL FASCICLE;

ANATOMY, COMPARATIVE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84888028652     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.04.015     Document Type: Article

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