Michel
Thiebaut de Schotten1, Flavio Dell'Acqua1, Stephanie
Forkel1, Marco Catani2
1Brain Maturation, Institute of
Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom; 2Centre for Neuroimaging
Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, United Kingdom
The
fronto-parietal network has been reported as involved in a large panel of
function including spatial processing. In the monkey brain, Petrides &
Pandya used the term superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF) to indicate the
fronto-parietal connections and identified three separate branches. In this
study we have used advanced diffusion imaging to dissect the three branches
of the SLF in 14 human living brains, measure the pattern of lateralization
of its components and correlate these patterns with the spatial processing
performance assessed with the line bisection test.
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