Primate auditory prototype in the evolution of the arcuate fasciculus.
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SUBMITTER: Balezeau F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7195223 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
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Primate auditory prototype in the evolution of the arcuate fasciculus.
Balezeau Fabien F Wilson Benjamin B Gallardo Guillermo G Dick Fred F Hopkins William W Anwander Alfred A Friederici Angela D AD Griffiths Timothy D TD Petkov Christopher I CI
Nature neuroscience 20200420 5
The human arcuate fasciculus pathway is crucial for language, interconnecting posterior temporal and inferior frontal areas. Whether a monkey homolog exists is controversial and the nature of human-specific specialization unclear. Using monkey, ape and human auditory functional fields and diffusion-weighted MRI, we identified homologous pathways originating from the auditory cortex. This discovery establishes a primate auditory prototype for the arcuate fasciculus, reveals an earlier phylogeneti ...[more]
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