The frontal aslant tract (FAT) and its role in speech, language and executive function

AS Dick, D Garic, P Graziano, P Tremblay - Cortex, 2019 - Elsevier
In this review, we examine the structural connectivity of a recently-identified fiber pathway,
the frontal aslant tract (FAT), and explore its function. We first review structural connectivity …

Enhanced visual functioning in autism: An ALE meta‐analysis

F Samson, L Mottron, I Soulières… - Human brain …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Autistics often exhibit enhanced perceptual abilities when engaged in visual search, visual
discrimination, and embedded figure detection. In similar fashion, while performing a range …

Influence of skin blood flow on near-infrared spectroscopy signals measured on the forehead during a verbal fluency task

T Takahashi, Y Takikawa, R Kawagoe, S Shibuya… - Neuroimage, 2011 - Elsevier
Brain activity during a verbal fluency task (VFT) has been the target of many functional
imaging studies. Most studies using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) have reported major …

Neural systems supporting lexical search guided by letter and semantic category cues: a self-paced overt response fMRI study of verbal fluency

RM Birn, L Kenworthy, L Case, R Caravella, TB Jones… - Neuroimage, 2010 - Elsevier
Verbal fluency tasks have been widely used to evaluate language and executive control
processes in the human brain. FMRI studies of verbal fluency, however, have used either …

A systematic review and quantitative appraisal of fMRI studies of verbal fluency: role of the left inferior frontal gyrus

SG Costafreda, CHY Fu, L Lee, B Everitt… - Human brain …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG) has consistently been associated with both phonologic
and semantic operations in functional neuroimaging studies. Two main theories have …

An fMRI investigation of syllable sequence production

JW Bohland, FH Guenther - Neuroimage, 2006 - Elsevier
Fluent speech comprises sequences that are composed from a finite alphabet of learned
words, syllables, and phonemes. The sequencing of discrete motor behaviors has received …

EEG source connectivity analysis: from dense array recordings to brain networks

M Hassan, O Dufor, I Merlet, C Berrou, F Wendling - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The recent past years have seen a noticeable increase of interest for
electroencephalography (EEG) to analyze functional connectivity through brain sources …

A coordinate-based ALE functional MRI meta-analysis of brain activation during verbal fluency tasks in healthy control subjects

S Wagner, A Sebastian, K Lieb, O Tüscher, A Tadić - BMC neuroscience, 2014 - Springer
Background The processing of verbal fluency tasks relies on the coordinated activity of a
number of brain areas, particularly in the frontal and temporal lobes of the left hemisphere …

Neural regions essential for distinct cognitive processes underlying picture naming

J DeLeon, RF Gottesman, JT Kleinman, M Newhart… - Brain, 2007 - academic.oup.com
We hypothesized that distinct cognitive processes underlying oral and written picture
naming depend on intact function of different, but overlapping, regions of the left hemisphere …

Neuropsychological deficits in temporal lobe epilepsy: A comprehensive review

F Zhao, H Kang, LI You, P Rastogi… - Annals of Indian …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most prevalent form of complex partial seizures with
temporal lobe origin of electrical abnormality. Studies have shown that recurrent seizures …