Functional network mirrored in the prefrontal cortex, caudate nucleus, and thalamus: High-resolution functional imaging and structural connectivity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 28, 2014, Pages 9202-9212

  Jeon, Hyeon Ae ^a   Anwander, Alfred ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive hierarchy; Functional specificity of the cortico subcortical loop; High resolution fMRI and dMRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; COGNITION; CONNECTOME; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DORSOMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; TRACTOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

COGNITIVE HIERARCHY; FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICITY OF THE CORTICO-SUBCORTICAL LOOP; HIGH-RESOLUTION FMRI AND DMRI;

ADULT; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; COGNITION; CONNECTOME; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; THALAMUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903954838     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0228-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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