Acquisition of Paleolithic toolmaking abilities involves structural remodeling to inferior frontoparietal regions

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 220, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2315-2331

  Hecht, E E ^a,h   Gutman, D A ^a,b   Khreisheh, N ^c   Taylor, S V ^d   Kilner, J ^e   Faisal, A A ^d,f   Bradley, B A ^c   Chaminade, T ^g   Stout, D ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^g AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^h GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain evolution; Diffusion tensor imaging; Language; Plasticity; Superior longitudinal fasciculus; Tool use

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTOPARIETAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NATURAL SELECTION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALEOLITHIC; PARS TRIANGULARIS; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; TOOL MAKING; TOOL USE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; ADOLESCENT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PARIETAL LOBE; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84933179671     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-014-0789-6     Document Type: Article

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