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Roe JM, Vidal-Pineiro D, Amlien IK, Pan M, Sneve MH, Thiebaut de Schotten M, Friedrich P, Sha Z, Francks C, Eilertsen EM, Wang Y, Walhovd KB, Fjell AM, Westerhausen R. Tracing the development and lifespan change of population-level structural asymmetry in the cerebral cortex. eLife 2023; 12:e84685. [PMID: 37335613 PMCID: PMC10368427 DOI: 10.7554/elife.84685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2022] [Accepted: 06/16/2023] [Indexed: 06/21/2023] Open
Abstract
Cortical asymmetry is a ubiquitous feature of brain organization that is subtly altered in some neurodevelopmental disorders, yet we lack knowledge of how its development proceeds across life in health. Achieving consensus on the precise cortical asymmetries in humans is necessary to uncover the developmental timing of asymmetry and the extent to which it arises through genetic and later influences in childhood. Here, we delineate population-level asymmetry in cortical thickness and surface area vertex-wise in seven datasets and chart asymmetry trajectories longitudinally across life (4-89 years; observations = 3937; 70% longitudinal). We find replicable asymmetry interrelationships, heritability maps, and test asymmetry associations in large-scale data. Cortical asymmetry was robust across datasets. Whereas areal asymmetry is predominantly stable across life, thickness asymmetry grows in childhood and peaks in early adulthood. Areal asymmetry is low-moderately heritable (max h2SNP ~19%) and correlates phenotypically and genetically in specific regions, indicating coordinated development of asymmetries partly through genes. In contrast, thickness asymmetry is globally interrelated across the cortex in a pattern suggesting highly left-lateralized individuals tend towards left-lateralization also in population-level right-asymmetric regions (and vice versa), and exhibits low or absent heritability. We find less areal asymmetry in the most consistently lateralized region in humans associates with subtly lower cognitive ability, and confirm small handedness and sex effects. Results suggest areal asymmetry is developmentally stable and arises early in life through genetic but mainly subject-specific stochastic effects, whereas childhood developmental growth shapes thickness asymmetry and may lead to directional variability of global thickness lateralization in the population.
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- James M Roe
- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition (LCBC), Department of Psychology, University of OsloOsloNorway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition (LCBC), Department of Psychology, University of OsloOsloNorway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition (LCBC), Department of Psychology, University of OsloOsloNorway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition (LCBC), Department of Psychology, University of OsloOsloNorway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition (LCBC), Department of Psychology, University of OsloOsloNorway
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- Groupe d'Imagerie Neurofonctionnelle, Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives-UMR 5293, CNRS, CEA, University of BordeauxBordeauxFrance
- Brian Connectivity and Behaviour Laboratory, Sorbonne UniversityParisFrance
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Research Centre JülichJülichGermany
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- Language and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for PsycholinguisticsNijmegenNetherlands
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- Language and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for PsycholinguisticsNijmegenNetherlands
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud UniversityNijmegenNetherlands
- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical CenterNijmegenNetherlands
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- PROMENTA Research Center, Department of Psychology, University of OsloOsloNorway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition (LCBC), Department of Psychology, University of OsloOsloNorway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition (LCBC), Department of Psychology, University of OsloOsloNorway
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University HospitalOsloNorway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition (LCBC), Department of Psychology, University of OsloOsloNorway
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University HospitalOsloNorway
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- Section for Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of OsloOsloNorway
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Karpychev V, Bolgina T, Malytina S, Zinchenko V, Ushakov V, Ignatyev G, Dragoy O. Greater volumes of a callosal sub-region terminating in posterior language-related areas predict a stronger degree of language lateralization: A tractography study. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0276721. [PMID: 36520829 PMCID: PMC9754228 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0276721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2021] [Accepted: 10/13/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Language lateralization is the most intriguing trait of functional asymmetry for cognitive functions. Nowadays, ontogenetic determinants of this trait are largely unknown, but there are efforts to find its anatomical correlates. In particular, a white matter interhemispheric connection-the corpus callosum-has been proposed as such. In the present study, we aimed to find the association between the degree of language lateralization and metrics of the callosal sub-regions. We applied a sentence completion fMRI task to measure the degree of language lateralization in a group of healthy participants balanced for handedness. We obtained the volumes and microstructural properties of callosal sub-regions with two tractography techniques, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and constrained spherical deconvolution (CSD). The analysis of DTI-based metrics did not reveal any significant associations with language lateralization. In contrast, CSD-based analysis revealed that the volumes of a callosal sub-region terminating in the core posterior language-related areas predict a stronger degree of language lateralization. This finding supports the specific inhibitory model implemented through the callosal fibers projecting into the core posterior language-related areas in the degree of language lateralization, with no relevant contribution of other callosal sub-regions.
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- Research and Practical Clinical Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine Technologies of the Moscow Department of Health, Moscow, Russia
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- National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow, Russia
- Institute for Advanced Brain Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- HSE University, Moscow, Russia
- Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Structural Brain Asymmetries for Language: A Comparative Approach across Primates. Symmetry (Basel) 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/sym14050876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Humans are the only species that can speak. Nonhuman primates, however, share some ‘domain-general’ cognitive properties that are essential to language processes. Whether these shared cognitive properties between humans and nonhuman primates are the results of a continuous evolution [homologies] or of a convergent evolution [analogies] remain difficult to demonstrate. However, comparing their respective underlying structure—the brain—to determinate their similarity or their divergence across species is critical to help increase the probability of either of the two hypotheses, respectively. Key areas associated with language processes are the Planum Temporale, Broca’s Area, the Arcuate Fasciculus, Cingulate Sulcus, The Insula, Superior Temporal Sulcus, the Inferior Parietal lobe, and the Central Sulcus. These structures share a fundamental feature: They are functionally and structurally specialised to one hemisphere. Interestingly, several nonhuman primate species, such as chimpanzees and baboons, show human-like structural brain asymmetries for areas homologous to key language regions. The question then arises: for what function did these asymmetries arise in non-linguistic primates, if not for language per se? In an attempt to provide some answers, we review the literature on the lateralisation of the gestural communication system, which may represent the missing behavioural link to brain asymmetries for language area’s homologues in our common ancestor.
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Eckert MA, Vaden KI, Iuricich F. Cortical asymmetries at different spatial hierarchies relate to phonological processing ability. PLoS Biol 2022; 20:e3001591. [PMID: 35381012 PMCID: PMC8982829 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2021] [Accepted: 03/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The ability to map speech sounds to corresponding letters is critical for establishing proficient reading. People vary in this phonological processing ability, which has been hypothesized to result from variation in hemispheric asymmetries within brain regions that support language. A cerebral lateralization hypothesis predicts that more asymmetric brain structures facilitate the development of foundational reading skills like phonological processing. That is, structural asymmetries are predicted to linearly increase with ability. In contrast, a canalization hypothesis predicts that asymmetries constrain behavioral performance within a normal range. That is, structural asymmetries are predicted to quadratically relate to phonological processing, with average phonological processing occurring in people with the most asymmetric structures. These predictions were examined in relatively large samples of children (N = 424) and adults (N = 300), using a topological asymmetry analysis of T1-weighted brain images and a decoding measure of phonological processing. There was limited evidence of structural asymmetry and phonological decoding associations in classic language-related brain regions. However, and in modest support of the cerebral lateralization hypothesis, small to medium effect sizes were observed where phonological decoding accuracy increased with the magnitude of the largest structural asymmetry across left hemisphere cortical regions, but not right hemisphere cortical regions, for both the adult and pediatric samples. In support of the canalization hypothesis, small to medium effect sizes were observed where phonological decoding in the normal range was associated with increased asymmetries in specific cortical regions for both the adult and pediatric samples, which included performance monitoring and motor planning brain regions that contribute to oral and written language functions. Thus, the relevance of each hypothesis to phonological decoding may depend on the scale of brain organization.
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- Mark A. Eckert
- Hearing Research Program, Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
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- Hearing Research Program, Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
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- Visual Computing Division, School of Computing, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America
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Asymmetries in the functional and structural organization of the nervous system are widespread in the animal kingdom and especially characterize the human brain. Although there is little doubt that asymmetries arise through genetic and nongenetic factors, an overarching model to explain the development of functional lateralization patterns is still lacking. Current genetic psychology collects data on genes relevant to brain lateralizations, while animal research provides information on the cellular mechanisms mediating the effects of not only genetic but also environmental factors. This review combines data from human and animal research (especially on birds) and outlines a multi-level model for asymmetry formation. The relative impact of genetic and nongenetic factors varies between different developmental phases and neuronal structures. The basic lateralized organization of a brain is already established through genetically controlled embryonic events. During ongoing development, hemispheric specialization increases for specific functions and subsystems interact to shape the final functional organization of a brain. In particular, these developmental steps are influenced by environmental experiences, which regulate the fine-tuning of neural networks via processes that are referred to as ontogenetic plasticity. The plastic potential of the nervous system could be decisive for the evolutionary success of lateralized brains.
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Gerrits R, Verhelst H, Dhollander T, Xiang L, Vingerhoets G. Structural perisylvian asymmetry in naturally occurring atypical language dominance. Brain Struct Funct 2021; 227:573-586. [PMID: 34173870 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-021-02323-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2021] [Accepted: 06/14/2021] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Functional and anatomical hemispheric asymmetries abound in the neural language system, yet the relationship between them remains elusive. One attractive proposal is that structural interhemispheric differences reflect or even drive functional language laterality. However, studies on structure-function couplings either find that left and right language dominant individuals display similar leftward structural asymmetry or yield inconsistent results. The current study aimed to replicate and extend prior work by comparing structural asymmetries between neurologically healthy left-handers with right hemispheric language dominance (N = 24) and typically lateralized left-handed controls (N = 39). Based on structural MRI data, anatomical measures of six 'language-related' perisylvian structures were derived, including the surface area of five gray matter regions with known language functions and the FDC (combined fiber density and fiber-bundle cross-sectional area) of the arcuate fasciculus. Only the surface area of the pars triangularis and the anterior insula differed significantly between participant groups, being on average leftward asymmetric in those with typical dominance, but right lateralized in volunteers with atypical language specialization. However, these findings did not survive multiple testing correction and the asymmetry of these structures demonstrated much inter-individual variability in either subgroup. By integrating our findings with those reported previously we conclude that while some perisylvian anatomical asymmetries may differ subtly between typical and atypical speech dominants at the group level, they serve as poor participant-specific predictors of hemispheric language specialization.
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- Robin Gerrits
- Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Developmental Imaging, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
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- Centre for Reproductive Health, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH16 4TJ, UK
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging (GIfMI), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Becker Y, Phelipon R, Sein J, Velly L, Renaud L, Meguerditchian A. Planum temporale grey matter volume asymmetries in newborn monkeys (Papio anubis). Brain Struct Funct 2021; 227:463-468. [PMID: 33937939 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-021-02278-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2021] [Accepted: 04/10/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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The Planum temporale (PT) is one of the key hubs of the language network in the human brain. The gross asymmetry of this perisylvian region toward the left brain was considered as the most emblematic marker of hemispheric specialization of language processes in the brain. Interestingly, this neuroanatomical signature was documented also in newborn infants and preterms, suggesting the early brain's readiness for language acquisition. Nevertheless, this latter interpretation was questioned by a recent report in non-human primates of a potential similar signature in newborn baboons Papio anubis based on PT surface measures. Whether this "tip of the iceberg" PT asymmetry is actually reflecting asymmetry of its underlying grey matter volume remains unclear but critical to investigate potential continuities of cortical specialization with human infants. Here we report a population-level leftward asymmetry of the PT grey matter volume in in vivo 34 newborn baboons P. anubis, which showed intra-individual positive correlation with PT surface's asymmetry measures but also a more pronounced degree of leftward asymmetry at the population level. This finding demonstrates that PT leftward structural asymmetry in this Old World monkey species is a robust phenomenon in early primate development, which clearly speaks for a continuity with early human brain specialization. Results also strengthen the hypothesis that early PT asymmetry might be not a human-specific marker for the pre-wired language-ready brain in infants.
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- Yannick Becker
- Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, UMR 7290, Université Aix-Marseille/CNRS, 13331, Marseille, France.,Institut des Neurosciences de La Timone, UMR 7289, Université Aix-Marseille/CNRS, 13005, Marseille, France
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- Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, UMR 7290, Université Aix-Marseille/CNRS, 13331, Marseille, France
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- Institut des Neurosciences de La Timone, UMR 7289, Université Aix-Marseille/CNRS, 13005, Marseille, France
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- Institut des Neurosciences de La Timone, UMR 7289, Université Aix-Marseille/CNRS, 13005, Marseille, France
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- Institut des Neurosciences de La Timone, UMR 7289, Université Aix-Marseille/CNRS, 13005, Marseille, France
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- Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, UMR 7290, Université Aix-Marseille/CNRS, 13331, Marseille, France. .,Station de Primatologie, UPS846, CNRS, 13790, Rousset, France.
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Guadalupe T, Kong XZ, Akkermans SEA, Fisher SE, Francks C. Relations between hemispheric asymmetries of grey matter and auditory processing of spoken syllables in 281 healthy adults. Brain Struct Funct 2021; 227:561-572. [PMID: 33502621 PMCID: PMC8844177 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-021-02220-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2020] [Accepted: 01/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Most people have a right-ear advantage for the perception of spoken syllables, consistent with left hemisphere dominance for speech processing. However, there is considerable variation, with some people showing left-ear advantage. The extent to which this variation is reflected in brain structure remains unclear. We tested for relations between hemispheric asymmetries of auditory processing and of grey matter in 281 adults, using dichotic listening and voxel-based morphometry. This was the largest study of this issue to date. Per-voxel asymmetry indexes were derived for each participant following registration of brain magnetic resonance images to a template that was symmetrized. The asymmetry index derived from dichotic listening was related to grey matter asymmetry in clusters of voxels corresponding to the amygdala and cerebellum lobule VI. There was also a smaller, non-significant cluster in the posterior superior temporal gyrus, a region of auditory cortex. These findings contribute to the mapping of asymmetrical structure–function links in the human brain and suggest that subcortical structures should be investigated in relation to hemispheric dominance for speech processing, in addition to auditory cortex.
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- Tulio Guadalupe
- Language and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Wundtlaan 1, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Language and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Wundtlaan 1, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.,Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.,Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Language and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Wundtlaan 1, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.,Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Language and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Wundtlaan 1, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. .,Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Gerrits R, De Clercq P, Verhelst H, Vingerhoets G. Evaluating the performance of the visual half field paradigm as a screening tool to detect right hemispheric language dominance. Laterality 2020; 25:722-739. [PMID: 33302786 DOI: 10.1080/1357650x.2020.1854279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Language is among the most studied functional asymmetries, yet little is known about right hemispheric language dominance. Because of its low prevalence, including a big sample of individuals with this variant of brain organization implies testing large groups, which may not be feasible when using expensive techniques. One solution involves screening a large sample using a cost-efficient method and next inviting only those participants flagged as potentially right dominant for follow-up investigation. The behavioural visual half field paradigm has previously been validated and successfully applied in this manner. We report a large-scale visual half field screening performed in 315 left-handers to detect such individuals for subsequent MRI scanning. Of 38 cases selected as probably right language dominant based on a left visual half field advantage (>20 ms), 22 (58%) were confirmed by language fMRI to be rightward lateralized. This study also explored means to improve the predictive performance of the visual half field task. While we found its performance depended strongly on the chosen cut-off, overall, reaction time criteria resulted in higher true positive rates, while those based on accuracy led to superior positive predictive values. The most optimal strategy, however, may involve combining criteria considering both accuracy and reaction time.
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- Robin Gerrits
- Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
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Early Left-Planum Temporale Asymmetry in newborn monkeys (Papio anubis): A longitudinal structural MRI study at two stages of development. Neuroimage 2020; 227:117575. [PMID: 33285330 PMCID: PMC7896037 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2020] [Revised: 10/08/2020] [Accepted: 11/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Newborn baboons present a leftward Planum Temporale Asymmetry. The proportion is similar to human newborns and adults. As in human infants, the asymmetry strength increases across development. These findings question early Planum Temporale Asymmetry as a human-specific marker for the prewired language-ready brain.
The “language-ready” brain theory suggests that the infant brain is pre-wired for language acquisition prior to language exposure. As a potential brain marker of such a language readiness, a leftward structural brain asymmetry was found in human infants for the Planum Temporale (PT), which overlaps with Wernicke's area. In the present longitudinal in vivo MRI study conducted in 35 newborn monkeys (Papio anubis), we found a similar leftward PT surface asymmetry. Follow-up rescanning sessions on 29 juvenile baboons at 7-10 months showed that such an asymmetry increases across the two ages classes. These original findings in non-linguistic primate infants strongly question the idea that the early PT asymmetry constitutes a human infant-specific marker for language development. Such a shared early perisylvian organization provides additional support that PT asymmetry might be related to a lateralized system inherited from our last common ancestor with Old-World monkeys at least 25–35 million years ago.
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Labache L, Mazoyer B, Joliot M, Crivello F, Hesling I, Tzourio-Mazoyer N. Typical and atypical language brain organization based on intrinsic connectivity and multitask functional asymmetries. eLife 2020; 9:e58722. [PMID: 33064079 PMCID: PMC7605859 DOI: 10.7554/elife.58722] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2020] [Accepted: 10/16/2020] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Based on the joint investigation in 287 healthy volunteers (150 left-Handers (LH)) of language task-induced asymmetries and intrinsic connectivity strength of the sentence-processing supramodal network, we show that individuals with atypical rightward language lateralization (N = 30, 25 LH) do not rely on an organization that simply mirrors that of typical leftward lateralized individuals. Actually, the resting-state organization in the atypicals showed that their sentence processing was underpinned by left and right networks both wired for language processing and highly interacting by strong interhemispheric intrinsic connectivity and larger corpus callosum volume. Such a loose hemispheric specialization for language permits the hosting of language in either the left and/or right hemisphere as assessed by a very high incidence of dissociations across various language task-induced asymmetries in this group.
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- Loïc Labache
- Université de Bordeaux, Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives, UMR 5293, Groupe d’Imagerie NeurofonctionnelleBordeauxFrance
- CNRS, Institut des Maladies Neurodégéneratives, UMR 5293, Groupe d’Imagerie NeurofonctionnelleBordeauxFrance
- CEA, Institut des Maladies Neurodégéneratives, UMR 5293, Groupe d’Imagerie NeurofonctionnelleBordeauxFrance
- Université de Bordeaux, Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux, UMR 5251BordeauxFrance
- Bordeaux INP, Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux, UMR 5251BordeauxFrance
- INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest, Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux, UMR 5251, Contrôle de Qualité et Fiabilité DynamiqueTalenceFrance
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- Université de Bordeaux, Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives, UMR 5293, Groupe d’Imagerie NeurofonctionnelleBordeauxFrance
- CNRS, Institut des Maladies Neurodégéneratives, UMR 5293, Groupe d’Imagerie NeurofonctionnelleBordeauxFrance
- CEA, Institut des Maladies Neurodégéneratives, UMR 5293, Groupe d’Imagerie NeurofonctionnelleBordeauxFrance
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de BordeauxBordeauxFrance
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- Université de Bordeaux, Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives, UMR 5293, Groupe d’Imagerie NeurofonctionnelleBordeauxFrance
- CNRS, Institut des Maladies Neurodégéneratives, UMR 5293, Groupe d’Imagerie NeurofonctionnelleBordeauxFrance
- CEA, Institut des Maladies Neurodégéneratives, UMR 5293, Groupe d’Imagerie NeurofonctionnelleBordeauxFrance
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- Université de Bordeaux, Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives, UMR 5293, Groupe d’Imagerie NeurofonctionnelleBordeauxFrance
- CNRS, Institut des Maladies Neurodégéneratives, UMR 5293, Groupe d’Imagerie NeurofonctionnelleBordeauxFrance
- CEA, Institut des Maladies Neurodégéneratives, UMR 5293, Groupe d’Imagerie NeurofonctionnelleBordeauxFrance
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- Université de Bordeaux, Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives, UMR 5293, Groupe d’Imagerie NeurofonctionnelleBordeauxFrance
- CNRS, Institut des Maladies Neurodégéneratives, UMR 5293, Groupe d’Imagerie NeurofonctionnelleBordeauxFrance
- CEA, Institut des Maladies Neurodégéneratives, UMR 5293, Groupe d’Imagerie NeurofonctionnelleBordeauxFrance
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- Université de Bordeaux, Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives, UMR 5293, Groupe d’Imagerie NeurofonctionnelleBordeauxFrance
- CNRS, Institut des Maladies Neurodégéneratives, UMR 5293, Groupe d’Imagerie NeurofonctionnelleBordeauxFrance
- CEA, Institut des Maladies Neurodégéneratives, UMR 5293, Groupe d’Imagerie NeurofonctionnelleBordeauxFrance
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Villar-Rodríguez E, Palomar-García MÁ, Hernández M, Adrián-Ventura J, Olcina-Sempere G, Parcet MA, Ávila C. Left-handed musicians show a higher probability of atypical cerebral dominance for language. Hum Brain Mapp 2020; 41:2048-2058. [PMID: 32034834 PMCID: PMC7268010 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2019] [Revised: 12/02/2019] [Accepted: 01/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Music processing and right hemispheric language lateralization share a common network in the right auditory cortex and its frontal connections. Given that the development of hemispheric language dominance takes place over several years, this study tested whether musicianship could increase the probability of observing right language dominance in left-handers. Using a classic fMRI language paradigm, results showed that atypical lateralization was more predominant in musicians (40%) than in nonmusicians (5%). Comparison of left-handers with typical left and atypical right lateralization revealed that: (a) atypical cases presented a thicker right pars triangularis and more gyrified left Heschl's gyrus; and (b) the right pars triangularis of atypical cases showed a stronger intra-hemispheric functional connectivity with the right angular gyrus, but a weaker interhemispheric functional connectivity with part of the left Broca's area. Thus, musicianship is the first known factor related to a higher prevalence of atypical language dominance in healthy left-handed individuals. We suggest that differences in the frontal and temporal cortex might act as shared predisposing factors to both musicianship and atypical language lateralization.
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- Esteban Villar-Rodríguez
- Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Group, Jaume I University, Edificio de Investigación II, Castellón de la Plana, Spain
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- Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Group, Jaume I University, Edificio de Investigación II, Castellón de la Plana, Spain
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, Institut de Neurociències, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Group, Jaume I University, Edificio de Investigación II, Castellón de la Plana, Spain
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- Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Group, Jaume I University, Edificio de Investigación II, Castellón de la Plana, Spain
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- Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Group, Jaume I University, Edificio de Investigación II, Castellón de la Plana, Spain
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- Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Group, Jaume I University, Edificio de Investigación II, Castellón de la Plana, Spain
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Evidence of a Right Ear Advantage in the absence of auditory targets. Sci Rep 2018; 8:15569. [PMID: 30349021 PMCID: PMC6197268 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-34086-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2018] [Accepted: 10/11/2018] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
Abstract
The Right Ear Advantage effect (REA) was explored in a white noise speech illusion paradigm: binaural white noise (WN) could be presented i) in isolation (WN condition), ii) overlapped to a voice pronouncing the vowel /a/ presented in the left ear (LE condition), iii) overlapped to a voice pronouncing the vowel /a/ presented in the right ear (RE condition). Participants were asked to report in which ear the voice has been perceived. The voice could be female or male, and it could be presented at 4 different intensities. Participants carried out the task correctly both in LE and in RE conditions. Importantly, in the WN condition the “right ear” responses were more frequent with respect to both the chance level and the “left ear” responses. A perceptual REA was confirmed both in LE and RE conditions. Moreover, when the voice was presented at low intensities (masked by WN), it was more frequently reported in the right than in the left ear (“illusory” REA). A positive correlation emerged between perceptual and illusory REA. Potential links of the REA effects with auditory hallucinations are discussed.
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