White matter association tracts underlying language and theory of mind: An investigation of 809 brains from the Human Connectome Project.

ABSTRACT: Language and theory of mind (ToM) are the cognitive capacities that allow for the successful interpretation and expression of meaning. While functional MRI investigations are able to consistently localize language and ToM to specific cortical regions, diffusion MRI investigations point to an inconsistent and sometimes overlapping set of white matter tracts associated with these two cognitive domains. To further examine the white matter tracts that may underlie these domains, we use a two-tensor tractography method to investigate the white matter microstructure of 809 participants from the Human Connectome Project. 20 association white matter tracts (10 in each hemisphere) are uniquely identified by leveraging a neuroanatomist-curated automated white matter tract atlas. The fractional aniso

SUBMITTER: Zekelman LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8862285 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature