Longitudinal connections and the organization of the temporal cortex in macaques, great apes, and humans

Roumazeilles, Lea and Eichert, Nicole and Bryant, Katherine L. and Folloni, Davide and Sallet, Jerome and Vijayakumar, Suhas and Foxley, Sean and Tendler, Benjamin C. and Jbabdi, Saad and Reveley, Colin and Verhagen, Lennart and Dershowitz, Lori B. and Guthrie, Martin and Flach, Edmund and Miller, Karla L. and Mars, Rogier B. and Townsend, Simon W. (2020) Longitudinal connections and the organization of the temporal cortex in macaques, great apes, and humans. PLOS Biology, 18 (7). e3000810. ISSN 1545-7885

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Abstract

The temporal association cortex is considered a primate specialization and is involved in complex behaviors, with some, such as language, particularly characteristic of humans. The emergence of these behaviors has been linked to major differences in temporal lobe white matter in humans compared with monkeys. It is unknown, however, how the organization of the temporal lobe differs across several anthropoid primates. Therefore, we systematically compared the organization of the major temporal lobe white matter tracts in the human, gorilla, and chimpanzee great apes and in the macaque monkey. We show that humans and great apes, in particular the chimpanzee, exhibit an expanded and more complex occipital–temporal white matter system; additionally, in humans, the invasion of dorsal tracts into the temporal lobe provides a further specialization. We demonstrate the reorganization of different tracts along the primate evolutionary tree, including distinctive connectivity of human temporal gray matter.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Euro Archives > Biological Science
Depositing User: Managing Editor
Date Deposited: 18 Jan 2023 10:11
Last Modified: 06 Mar 2024 03:50
URI: http://publish7promo.com/id/eprint/1613

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