Virtual dissection and comparative connectivity of the superior longitudinal fasciculus in chimpanzees and humans
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Many of the behavioral capacities that distinguish humans from other primates rely on fronto-parietal circuits. The superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF) is the primary white matter tract connecting lateral frontal with lateral parietal regions; it is distinct from the arcuate fasciculus, which interconnects the frontal and temporal lobes. Here we report a direct, quantitative comparison of SLF connectivity using virtual in vivo dissection of the SLF in chimpanzees and humans. SLF I, the superior-most branch of the SLF, showed similar patterns of connectivity between humans and chimpanzees, and was proportionally volumetrically larger in chimpanzees. SLF II, the middle branch, and SLF III, the inferior-most branch, showed species differences in frontal connectivity. In humans, SLF II showed greater connectivity with dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, whereas in chimps SLF II showed greater connectivity with the inferior frontal gyrus. SLF III was right-lateralized and proportionally volumetrically larger in humans, and human SLF III showed relatively reduced connectivity with dorsal premotor cortex and greater extension into the anterior inferior frontal gyrus, especially in the right hemisphere. These results have implications for the evolution of fronto-parietal functions including spatial attention to observed actions, social learning, and tool use, and are in line with previous research suggesting a unique role for the right anterior inferior frontal gyrus in the evolution of human fronto-parietal network architecture.
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The right-sided SLF as a whole appears more voluminous than the left-sided SLF.
“overall, the right-sided SLF as a whole appears more voluminous than on the left (3, 55).”
From Superior Longitudinal Fasciculus: A Review of the Anatomical Descriptions With Functional Correlates (2022) · cites this paper as [55]
The AF is a fronto-temporal tract that passes through the parietal white matter beneath the SLF.
“whereas the AF is a fronto-temporal tract that passes through the parietal white matter beneath the SLF (55, 56).”
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The AF is recognized as a distinctive bundle with connection areas and a trajectory different from that of the SLF.
“the AF is recognized as a distinctive bundle with connection areas and a trajectory different from that of the SLF”
From Superior Longitudinal Fasciculus: A Review of the Anatomical Descriptions With Functional Correlates (2022) · cites this paper as [55]
The SLF is a fronto-parietal tract connecting the frontal and parietal cortices, and it is a massive bundle connecting widespread areas of the frontal and parietal lobes.
“the SLF is in its essence a fronto-parietal tract, hence connecting the frontal and parietal cortices”
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“This function would be especially important for behaviors where the achievement of hierarchical action goals is causally dependent on kinematics, as it is in stone toolmaking (Nonaka et al., 2010; Stout, 2013).”
Call, J., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2005) · Animal Cognition · doi:10.1007/s10071-004-0237-8 · Cited by 239 · cited 1× · see citing works
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Older than the Oldowan? Rethinking the emergence of hominin tool use
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Late Acheulean technology and cognition at Boxgrove, UK
Stout, D., Apel, J., Commander, J., & Roberts, M. B. (2013) · Journal of Archaeological Science · doi:10.1016/j.jas.2013.10.001 · Cited by 218 · cited 1× · see citing works
“By 500,000 years ago, some Acheulean tools exhibited a high level of refinement requiring even more complex production sequences including, for example, the careful preparation of edges and surfaces prior to flake removal (Stout et al., 2014).”
Self-citationLeftward asymmetry in relative fiber density of the arcuate fasciculus
Nucifora, P. G. P., Verma, R., Melhem, E. R., Gur, R. E., & Gur, R. C. (2005) · Neuroreport · doi:10.1097/00001756-200505310-00002 · Cited by 217 · see citing works
Gray and white matter changes associated with tool-use learning in macaque monkeys
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Delineation of the middle longitudinal fascicle in humans: A quantitative, in vivo, DT-MRI study
Makris, N., Papadimitriou, G. M., Kaiser, J. R., Sorg, S., Kennedy, D. N., & Pandya, D. N. (2009) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhn124 · Cited by 214 · see citing works
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“There were several extensive cytoarchitectonic studies of the chimpanzee brain several decades ago (Brodmann, 1909; Economo and Parker, 1929; Bailey, 1948; Von Bonin, 1948; Bailey and Von Bonin, 1950; Schenker et al., 2010).”
Hartmann, K., Goldenberg, G., Daumüller, M., & Hermsdörfer, J. (2005) · Neuropsychologia · doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.07.015 · Cited by 193 · see citing works
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Continuity, Divergence, and the Evolution of Brain Language Pathways
Rilling, J. K., Glasser, M. F., Jbabdi, S., Andersson, J., & Preuss, T. M. (2012) · Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnevo.2011.00011 · Cited by 189 · cited 1× · see citing works
“, 2007; Glasser and Rilling, 2008) and chimpanzees (Rilling et al., 2011).”
Self-citation“An ape's view of the Oldowan” revisited
Wynn, T., Hernandez‐Aguilar, R. A., Marchant, L. F., & Mcgrew, W. C. (2011) · Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews · doi:10.1002/evan.20323 · Cited by 186 · cited 1× · see citing works
“There is some debate whether these simple “Oldowan” tools represent a departure from shared, “ape-grade” cognitive capacities (Wynn et al., 2011), but their manufacture does require bimanual coordination of accurate, forceful blows that appears difficult or impossible for apes (Byrne, 2005).”
Hecht, E. E., Gutman, D. A., Khreisheh, N., Taylor, S. V., Kilner, J. M., Faisal, A. A., Bradley, B. A., Chaminade, T., & Stout, D. (2014) · Brain Structure and Function · doi:10.1007/s00429-014-0789-6 · Cited by 185 · see citing works
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“This network overlaps with an evolutionarily ancient fronto-parietal network for objectdirected grasping (Rizzolatti and Fadiga, 1998) but human tool-use networks are undoubtedly more complex than macaque object-grasping networks.”
Hecht, E. E., Gutman, D. A., Preuss, T. M., Sánchez, M. M., Parr, L. A., & Rilling, J. K. (2012) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhs097 · Cited by 177 · see citing works
Self-citationWhat puts the how in where? Tool use and the divided visual streams hypothesis.
Frey, S. (2007) · Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · doi:10.1016/s0010-9452(08)70462-3 · Cited by 172 · cited 3× · see citing works
“It has been proposed that use of “complex” tools (those that alter the functional properties of the hand) requires additional causal understanding resulting from an integration of dorsal (“how”) and ventral (“what”) processing streams in a left-lateralized network of temporal, frontal and parietal areas (Frey, 2007).”
InfluentialTechnology, expertise and social cognition in human evolution
Stout, D., Passingham, R., Frith, C., Apel, J., & Chaminade, T. (2011) · European Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07619.x · Cited by 154 · cited 2× · see citing works
“A “mirror-system” or “simulation” account of action understanding suggests that similar neural systems would be involved in the social learning of tool-making methods, and this has been supported by an fMRI study of stone tool-making action observation (Stout et al., 2011).”
Self-citationVisual neglect in the monkey. Representation and disconnection.
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“In monkeys, section of the white matter between the fundus of the intraparietal sulcus and the lateral ventricle produces spatial neglect (Gaffan and Hornak 1997), suggesting a similar role for SLF in spatial attention across macaques, humans and presumably chimpanzees.”
A DTI Investigation of Neural Substrates Supporting Tool Use
Ramayya, A. G., Glasser, M. F., & Rilling, J. K. (2009) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhp141 · Cited by 151 · cited 1× · see citing works
“In humans, tool use involves a distributed network of interconnected frontal, parietal, and occipitotemporal regions (Johnson-Frey, 2004; Ramayya et al., 2010; Rilling and Stout, 2014).”
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Prefrontal–parietal function: from foraging to foresight
Genovesio, A., Wise, S. P., & Passingham, R. E. (2014) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.tics.2013.11.007 · Cited by 137 · cited 1× · see citing works
“lineage (Genovesio et al., 2014).”
The human brain: rewired and running hot
Preuss, T. M. (2011) · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06001.x · Cited by 132 · cited 1× · see citing works
“More generally, there is evidence for organizational changes and expansion of gray and white matter in the frontal lobes (Smaers et al., 2010; Preuss, 2011; Passingham and Smaers, 2014), changes in frontal and parietal white and gray matter asymmetry (Schenker et al.”
Self-citationModulation of Neural Activity during Observational Learning of Actions and Their Sequential Orders
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“, 2005) and neuroimaging (Frey and Gerry, 2006; Hamilton and Grafton, 2008) evidence implicate right frontoparietal cortex in the representation of action sequences and goals.”
Stimulus Selectivity in Dorsal and Ventral Prefrontal Cortex after Training in Working Memory Tasks
Meyer, T., Qi, X.-L., Stanford, T. R., & Constantinidis, C. (2011) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.6798-10.2011 · Cited by 129 · see citing works
Ten years after: Interference of hospital slack in process performance benefits of quality practices
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Left inferior parietal cortex integrates time and space during collision judgments.
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“The scans analyzed in the current study were acquired at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center under propofol anesthesia (10 mg/kg/h) using previously described procedures (Chen et al., 2013; Hecht et al., 2013b).”
Self-citationThe Mind of the Chimpanzee: Ecological and Experimental Perspectives
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Subcortical anatomy of the lateral association fascicles of the brain: A review
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Differences in Neural Activation for Object-Directed Grasping in Chimpanzees and Humans
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Self-citationVentral and dorsal fiber systems for imagined and executed movement
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“Human SLF II has been implicated in the production of both overt and imagined movements (Vry et al., 2012), as well as in spatial orienting and spatial attention (Suchan et al.”
Smaers, J. B., Schleicher, A., Zilles, K., & Vinicius, L. (2010) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009123 · Cited by 81 · cited 1× · see citing works
“More generally, there is evidence for organizational changes and expansion of gray and white matter in the frontal lobes (Smaers et al., 2010; Preuss, 2011; Passingham and Smaers, 2014), changes in frontal and parietal white and gray matter asymmetry (Schenker et al.”
Humans and chimpanzees attend differently to goal-directed actions
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In vivo architectonics: A cortico-centric perspective
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Self-citationSerial Organization of Human Behavior in the Inferior Parietal Cortex
Jubault, T., Ody, C., & Koechlin, É. (2007) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.1986-07.2007 · Cited by 51 · see citing works
Perisylvian white matter connectivity in the human right hemisphere
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“, 2008), or consider the arcuate to be a subcomponent of the SLF (e.g., Fernandez-Miranda et al., 2008; Gharabaghi et al., 2009; Petrides and Pandya, 2009).”
Fiber pathways connecting cortical areas relevant for spatial orienting and exploration
Suchan, J., Umarova, R. M., Schnell, S., Himmelbach, M., Weiller, C., Karnath, H., & Saur, D. (2013) · Human Brain Mapping · doi:10.1002/hbm.22232 · Cited by 37 · cited 1× · see citing works
“, 2012), as well as in spatial orienting and spatial attention (Suchan et al., 2014).”
Regional and Hemispheric Variation in Cortical Thickness in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
Hopkins, W. D., & Avants, B. (2013) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.2996-12.2013 · Cited by 35 · see citing works
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“Increased human connectivity between the right inferior frontal gyrus and parietal cortex via SLF III may provide an anatomical basis for enhanced cognitive control over the complex goals and multi-step action sequences characteristic of human technology (Stout, 2013).”
InfluentialSelf-citationFunctional organization of monkey brain for abstract operation.
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XTRACT - Standardised protocols for automated tractography in the human and macaque brain
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BackgroundResultInfluentialBuilding connectomes using diffusion MRI: why, how and but
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“The other finding has to do with the volume of the bundles; overall, the right-sided SLF as a whole appears more voluminous than on the left (3, 55).”
BackgroundInfluentialBrain Plasticity and Human Evolution
Sherwood, C. C., & Gómez-Robles, A. (2017) · Annual Review of Anthropology · doi:10.1146/annurev-anthro-102215-100009 · Cited by 170 · see citing works
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Evolutionary neuroscience of cumulative culture
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“Chimpanzees again appear intermediate, with a weak but observable extension of SLFIII into vlPFC and no evidence of right-lateralization at the population level (87).”
BackgroundSelf-citationEvolution of prefrontal cortex
Preuss, T. M., & Wise, S. P. (2021) · Neuropsychopharmacology · doi:10.1038/s41386-021-01076-5 · Cited by 244 · see citing works
Self-citationConnectivity Fingerprints: From Areal Descriptions to Abstract Spaces
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The Archaeology of Teaching and the Evolution ofHomo docens
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“Therefore, we disagree with Wynn et al. (2011) and view Oldowan technology as being beyond the reach of extant apes but presumably within the reach of extinct hominin species other than Homo (see Hecht et al. 2015 for a similar conclusion).”
BackgroundComparing brains by matching connectivity profiles
Mars, R. B., Verhagen, L., Gladwin, T. E., Neubert, F.-X., Sallet, J., & Rushworth, M. F. S. (2015) · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.10.008 · Cited by 119 · see citing works
“Finally, a growing number of studies has used diffusion MRI in multiple species to investigate the extent or projections of major white matter fibers across species (Rilling et al. 2008, Hecht et al. 2015).”
BackgroundWhite matter pathways and social cognition
Wang, Y., Metoki, A., Alm, K. H., & Olson, I. R. (2018) · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2018.04.015 · Cited by 104 · see citing works
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Skill Learning and Human Brain Evolution: An Experimental Approach
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“Hecht et al. (2015) proposed that this right-hemisphere prefrontal extension of SLFIII might support increased integration between the higher-order action-representation processing of anterior inferior frontal cortex and the kinematic and proprioceptive processing of anterior inferior parietal…”
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Pargeter, J., Khreisheh, N., Shea, J. J., & Stout, D. (2020) · Journal of Human Evolution · doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102807 · Cited by 87 · see citing works
Self-citationThe evolution of cognitive mechanisms in response to cultural innovations
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“There is also recent evidence relating structural changes in the human brain to Paleolithic tool-making abilities (27, 28), but additional work is still needed to clarify the direction of causation between culture and cognition (we will return to discuss these findings toward the end of the paper).”
BackgroundLarge-scale comparative neuroimaging: Where are we and what do we need?
de Schotten, M. T., Croxson, P. L., & Mars, R. B. (2018) · Cortex · doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2018.11.028 · Cited by 64 · see citing works
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A comprehensive atlas of white matter tracts in the chimpanzee
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“Seed and anterior target placement was guided by a previous DTI study on chimpanzee SLF anatomy [5].”
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“Finally, is there any evidence that the SLF, one of the major frontoparietal bundles, has similar cortical terminations in the human and other primates (de Schotten et al., 2011; Hecht et al., 2015)?”
BackgroundDifferences in Frontal Network Anatomy Across Primate Species
Barrett, R. L. C., Dawson, M., Dyrby, T. B., Krug, K., Ptito, M., D'Arceuil, H. E., Croxson, P. L., Johnson, P. J., Howells, H., Forkel, S. J., et al. (2020) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.1650-18.2019 · Cited by 77 · see citing works
“Beyond manual dexterity, interspecies differences in this tract may be related to functions greatly developed in humans, such as tool making (Hecht et al., 2015) and writing (Duncan, 2010; Purcell et al.”
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Microarchitecture and connectivity of the parietal lobe
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“In addition to that, area 3a has major connections with thalamic nuclei associated with motor processing, such as the ventral lateral and the medial dorsal, as well as the intralaminar nuclei (Darian-Smith and Darian-Smith, 1993; Huffmann and Krubitzer, 2001).”
BackgroundA Brain for Speech. Evolutionary Continuity in Primate and Human Auditory-Vocal Processing
Aboitiz, F. (2018) · Frontiers in Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnins.2018.00174 · Cited by 42 · see citing works
“Finally, tool-making requires a clear division of labor between both hands, which may have contributed to the generation of language asymmetries in humans (Uomini and Meyer, 2013; Hecht et al., 2015), although communication constraints may have also been important (see below).”
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Organization of extrastriate and temporal cortex in chimpanzees compared to humans and macaques
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“The right SLF III is a useful brain tract with high-capacity information processing due to its significantly greater volume compared to the left SLF III (Thiebaut de Schotten et al., 2011; Hecht et al., 2015).”
Tosoni, A., Capotosto, P., Baldassarre, A., Spadone, S., & Sestieri, C. (2023) · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnhum.2023.1250096 · Cited by 38 · see citing works
“At the anatomical level, large interspecies differences have been observed in the organization of the ventral branch of the superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF) that connects regions of the VAN (Hecht et al., 2015).”
Sierpowska, J., Bryant, K., Janssen, N., Freches, G. B., Römkens, M., Mangnus, M., Mars, R. B., & Piai, V. (2022) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.2118295119 · Cited by 52 · see citing works
“Thus, to make the least number of assumptions is to rely on the relative sizes of tracts within species to anchor our analysis, as in previous comparative Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) work (102).”
MethodCheng, L., Zhang, Y., Li, G., Wang, J., Sherwood, C. C., Gong, G., Fan, L., & Jiang, T. (2021) · eLife · doi:10.7554/elife.67600 · Cited by 43 · see citing works
“The IPL is connected to the PreG mainly through the SLF3, which in turn is connected to not only the PreG but also the IFG and MFG in the prefrontal cortex (Thiebaut de Schotten et al., 2011a; Kamali et al., 2014; Hecht et al., 2015; Barbeau et al., 2020).”
BackgroundResultEvolution of the Brain, Cognition, and Emotion in Vertebrates
Watanabe, S., Hofman, M., & Shimizu, T. (2017) · Brain Science · doi:10.1007/978-4-431-56559-8 · Cited by 34 · see citing works
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“This anatomical feature appears to be specific to humans (Hecht et al. 2015).”
BackgroundZheng, Y., Wang, D., Ye, Q., Zou, F., Yin, J., Li, Y., & Kwok, S. C. (2020) · bioRxiv · doi:10.1101/2020.03.17.994574 · Cited by 31
“underlies the precentral gyrus and links the right DLPFC to the right IPL (Hecht et al., 2015).”
BackgroundSubdividing the superior longitudinal fasciculus using local quantitative MRI
Schurr, R., Zelman, A., & Mezer, A. (2019) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116439 · Cited by 31 · see citing works
Concurrent analysis of white matter bundles and grey matter networks in the chimpanzee
Mars, R., O'Muircheartaigh, J., Folloni, D., Li, L.-C., Glasser, M., Jbabdi, S., & Bryant, K. L. (2018) · Brain Structure and Function · doi:10.1007/s00429-018-1817-8 · Cited by 29 · see citing works
“In the great ape, pioneering studies have investigated specific systems (Bryant et al. 2018; Hecht et al. 2015; Rilling et al. 2008), but to date have not presented a comprehensive analysis of the whole cortex.”
BackgroundResultInfluentialEvolutionary Specializations of Human Association Cortex
Mars, R. B., Passingham, R. E., Neubert, F.-X., Verhagen, L., & Sallet, J. (2016) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-804042-3.00118-4 · Cited by 34 · see citing works
The evolution and biological correlates of hand preferences in anthropoid primates
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“In line with that, areas of the prefrontal cortex involved in motor cognition are structurally derived in humans and differ significantly from their homologs in apes and monkeys (Hecht et al., 2015a; Barrett et al., 2020).”
BackgroundAmemiya, K., Naito, E., & Takemura, H. (2021) · bioRxiv · doi:10.1101/2021.01.27.428023 · Cited by 26
“Several dMRI studies have revealed that the human SLF III in the right hemisphere has a larger volume than that in the left hemisphere (Budisavljevic et al., 2017; Hecht et al., 2015; Thiebaut de Schotten et al., 2011), suggesting a possible link between SLF III and right-dominant function in the fronto-parietal netwo…”
BackgroundResultPargeter, J., Liu, C., Kilgore, M. B., Majoe, A., & Stout, D. (2022) · Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory · doi:10.1007/s10816-022-09592-4 · Cited by 24 · see citing works
“…conclusions regarding skill acquisition’s neurocognitive and social foundations (Cataldo et al., 2018; Duke & Pargeter, 2015; Geribas et al., 2010; Hecht et al., 2015a, 2015b; Lombao et al., 2017; Morgan et al., 2015; Nonaka et al., 2010; Pargeter et al., 2019, 2020; Putt, 2015; Putt et al.,…”
BackgroundInfluentialSelf-citationRight-hemispheric Dominance in Self-body Recognition is Altered in Left-handed Individuals.
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Warrington, S., Bryant, K. L., Khrapitchev, A., Sallet, J., Charquero-Ballester, M., Douaud, G., Jbabdi, S., Mars, R., & Sotiropoulos, S. (2019) · bioRxiv · doi:10.1101/804641 · Cited by 24 · see citing works
“For both human cohorts (HCP and UK Biobank), we found that reconstructed AF is strongly left-lateralised, while SLF3, IFO and MDLF were right-lateralised, as expected from the literature (Eichert et al., 2019b; Hau et al., 2016; Hecht et al., 2015; Nowell et al., 2016; Panesar et al., 2018; Thiebaut de Schotten et al.…”
BackgroundResultInfluentialDiffusion MRI data, sulcal anatomy, and tractography for eight species from the Primate Brain Bank
Bryant, K. L., Ardesch, D. J., Roumazeilles, L., Scholtens, L. H., Khrapitchev, A., Tendler, B. C., Wu, W.-C., Miller, K., Sallet, J., van den Heuvel, M. P., et al. (2021) · Brain Structure and Function · doi:10.1007/s00429-021-02268-x · Cited by 23 · see citing works
Culture in Mind – An Enactivist Account
Hutto, D. D., Gallagher, S., Ilundáin‐Agurruza, J., & Hipólito, I. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108695374.009 · Cited by 25 · see citing works
Morita, T., Saito, D. N., Ban, M., Shimada, K., Okamoto, Y., Kosaka, H., Okazawa, H., Asada, M., & Naito, E. (2018) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhy027 · Cited by 23 · see citing works
“It has repeatedly been shown in human adults that the volume of the right SLF III is greater than that of the left SLF III (Thiebaut de Schotten et al. 2011; Hecht et al. 2015; Budisavljevic et al. 2017).”
BackgroundTakemura, H., Pestilli, F., & Weiner, K. S. (2018) · Neuroscience Research · doi:10.1016/j.neures.2018.10.011 · Cited by 35 · see citing works
Manrique, H. M., & WALKER, M. J. (2023) · Physics of Life Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2023.02.005 · Cited by 29 · see citing works
Neuroplasticity enables bio-cultural feedback in Paleolithic stone-tool making
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Grammars of action in human behavior and evolutionPreprint
Stout, D., Chaminade, T., Thomik, A. A. C., Apel, J., & Faisal, A. A. (2018) · bioRxiv · doi:10.1101/281543 · Cited by 20 · see citing works
Self-citationThe Evolved Mind and Modern Education
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“It would also be interesting to see if parietal to dorsal premotor connections via SLF II are stronger in humans vs. other primates, especially in chimpanzees in which SLF II is a well-developed tract [131, 132].”
BackgroundManrique, H. M., Friston, K. J., & WALKER, M. J. (2024) · Physics of Life Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2024.01.004 · Cited by 23 · see citing works
“…to knap ‘handaxes ’ shows changes in superior longitudinal fasciculus white matter between frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital cortices [122,143,144,145], with impingements, that plausibly facilitate rapid attentional switching, on ventrolateral prefrontal cortices, the right inferior…”
BackgroundMargiotoudi, K., Bohn, M., Schwob, N., Taglialatela, J., Pulvermüller, F., Epping, A. J., Schweller, K., & Allritz, M. (2022) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B · doi:10.1098/rspb.2021.1717 · Cited by 18 · see citing works
“Specifically, long white matter cortical connections between frontal and posterior temporal cortices, such as the arcuate fasciculus [45,46] or the superior longitudinal fasciculus [47] are not as strongly developed in great apes.”
Measurement of Sylvian Fissure asymmetry and occipital bending in humans and Pan troglodytes
Hou, L., Xiang, L., Crow, T. J., Leroy, F., Rivière, D., Mangin, J. F., & Roberts, N. (2019) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.08.045 · Cited by 18 · see citing works
“In parallel with our findings in the SF, the underlying white matter fibre tracts are reported not to be lateralised in chimpanzees (Rilling et al., 2008; Hecht et al., 2015), raising the possibility that surface asymmetries in humans may be related to lateralised white matter changes.”
BackgroundInvestigation of superior longitudinal fasciculus fiber complexity in recent onset psychosis
Szeszko, P. R., Tan, E. T., Uluğ, A. M., Kingsley, P. B., Gallego, J. A., Rhindress, K., Malhotra, A. K., Robinson, D. G., & Marinelli, L. (2017) · Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.pnpbp.2017.10.019 · Cited by 19 · see citing works
“In addition, studies investigating the comparative neuroanatomy of the SLF implicate a unique role for this white-matter bundle in the evolution of human fronto parietal networks associated with action imitation and concomitant social learning (Hecht et al., 2015) with other evidence suggesting that self-recognition f…”
BackgroundÇini, N., Pennisi, M., Genç, S., Spandidos, D. A., Falzone, L., Mitsias, P., Tsatsakis, A., & Taghizadehghalehjoughi, A. (2024) · Oncology Report · doi:10.3892/or.2024.8798 · Cited by 17 · see citing works
“However, some studies in the literature are not concordant indicating that SLF is greater on the right side than on the left side (47,51), while other studies have claimed that SLF II is dominant on the left side through multiple components (49,52).”
ResultBauer, C. M., & Merabet, L. B. (2024) · Journal of Integrative Neuroscience · doi:10.31083/j.jin2301001 · Cited by 16 · see citing works
“End points were in the caudal middle frontal, lateral orbitofrontal, medial orbitofrontal, pars opercularis, pars orbitalis, pars triangularis, rostral middle frontal, and superior frontal regions [15,16,35–38].”
In vivo mapping of the deep and superficial white matter connectivity in the chimpanzee brain
Chauvel, M., Uszynski, I., Herlin, B., Popov, A., Leprince, Y., Mangin, J., Hopkins, W. D., & Poupon, C. (2023) · bioRxiv · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120362 · Cited by 14
The uniqueness of the human brain: a review
Pittella, J. E. H. (2024) · Dementia & Neuropsychologia · doi:10.1590/1980-5764-dn-2023-0078 · Cited by 14 · see citing works
“In humans, as compared to chimpanzees, there is greater connectivity of the superior longitudinal fasciculus with the lateral frontal cortex (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and inferior frontal gyrus), more to the right in the latter, thus evidencing lateralization 73 .”
BackgroundXia, X., Fan, L., Chen, C., Yao, R., Deng, H., Zhao, D., Li, H., & Jiang, T. (2019) · Frontiers in Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnins.2019.00623 · Cited by 10 · see citing works
“, 2008, 2011) along with many other white matter fibers (Zhang et al., 2013; Hecht et al., 2015).”
BackgroundMethodIndividual variation in the chimpanzee arcuate fasciculus predicts vocal and gestural communication
Hecht, E. E., Vijayakumar, S., Becker, Y., & Hopkins, W. D. (2025) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-025-58784-5 · Cited by 12 · see citing works
“The frontaland parietalgraymatter masks are equivalent to those used in prior studies 70,71 .”
Self-citationAnatomical organization of forebrain circuits in the primate
Giarrocco, F., & Averbeck, B. (2022) · Brain Structure and Function · doi:10.1007/s00429-022-02586-8 · Cited by 12 · see citing works
“Stronger prefrontal connectivity of the vSLF, along with its right lateralization, has been suggested to reflect higher cognitive functions and human motor skills such as the use of tools and social learning (Hecht et al. 2015; Thiebaut de Schotten et al. 2012).”
BackgroundImproving innovative decision-making: Training-induced changes in fronto-parietal networks
Crespi, C., Martinez, D. L., Dodich, A., Cappa, S. F., Brusoni, S., Zollo, M., Falini, A., & Canessa, N. (2018) · Brain and Cognition · doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2018.11.004 · Cited by 14 · see citing works
“The superior longitudinal fasciculus is a long-range bidirectional bundle connecting frontal and parietal regions (Thiebaut de Schotten et al., 2012; Hecht et al., 2015), involved in several functions ranging from eye movements and visuospatial processing to sensory-motor integration and…”
BackgroundArchaeology and the evolutionary neuroscience of language
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Electrodermal activity during Lower Paleolithic stone tool handling
Fedato, A., Silva-Gago, M., Terradillos‐Bernal, M., Alonso-Alcalde, R., Martín-Guerra, E., & Bruner, E. (2019) · American Journal of Human Biology · doi:10.1002/ajhb.23279 · Cited by 10 · see citing works
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“, 2018c; Schmahmann and Pandya, 2009) and the chimpanzee SLF3 and AF are similar to previous reports (Hecht et al., 2015; Rilling et al., 2008).”
InfluentialHegarty, C. E., Jolles, D., Mennigen, E., Jalbrzikowski, M., Bearden, C., & Karlsgodt, K. (2018) · bioRxiv · doi:10.1101/423574 · Cited by 10
“We used a predefined ROI that predominantly includes the frontoparietal portion [traditionally, SLF I, II, and III (85)] without extensive temporoparietal connections.”
MethodThe Evolution of Mammalian Brains from Early Mammals to Present-Day Primates
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A map of white matter tracts in a lesser ape, the lar gibbon
Bryant, K. L., Manger, P., Bertelsen, M. F., Khrapitchev, A., Sallet, J., Benn, R. A., & Mars, R. (2023) · Brain Structure and Function · doi:10.1007/s00429-023-02709-9 · Cited by 8 · see citing works
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“…as well as regions in the junction between the temporal and parietal lobes (particularly near AG, SMG, and posterior MTG), as well as the underlying white matter pathways that connect these brain areas (Glasser & Rilling, 2008; Hecht et al., 2015; Schoenemann, 2006, 2018; Smaers et al., 2017).”
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Neurodiversity as a Conceptual Lens and Topic of Cross-Cultural Study
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“…are densely interconnected and play a crucial role in sensory and visuomotor integration during action observation and execution ( Glover et al., 2012; Hecht et al., 2015; Hecht, Gutman, et al., 2013), one might hypothesize that the absence of parietal and premotor activation in dogs may be linked.”
Anatomical bases of fast parietal grasp control in humans: A diffusion-MRI tractography study
Richard, N., Desmurget, M., Teillac, A., Beuriat, P., Bardi, L., Coudé, G., Szathmari, A., Mottolese, C., Sirigu, A., & Hiba, B. (2021) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118002 · Cited by 7 · see citing works
“This is much more than he percentages found for SLF-III (22”
InfluentialRitual and Religion as Social Technologies of Cooperation
Kavanagh, C. M., Jong, J., & Whitehouse, H. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108695374.016 · Cited by 5 · see citing works
Neuroanthropological Perspectives on Culture, Mind, and Brain
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Computational challenges of evolving the language-ready brain
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Self-citationConversion of concept-specific decision confidence into integrative introspection in primates
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Mutual Constitution of Culture and the Mind
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“…al., 2015; Cloutman and Lambon Ralph, 2012) and has been used to describe species differences in specific fiber pathways (Rilling et al., 2011; Zhang et al., 2013; Hecht et al. 2015; Folloni et al., 2019) and whole-brain connectivity profiles (Mars et al., 2016, 2018a, 2018b; Neubert et al., 2015).”
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“There is neuroanatomical evidence that both the SLF II and SLF III may play a role in social learning but in a different manner (Hecht et al., 2015).”
BackgroundCadaveric White Matter Dissection Study of the Telencephalic Flexure: Surgical Implications
González-López, P., Cossu, G., Thomas, C., Marston, J. S., Gómez, C., Pralong, E., Messerer, M., & Daniel, R. (2022) · Frontiers in Neurology · doi:10.3389/fneur.2022.757757 · Cited by 3 · see citing works
- Authors
- Hecht, E. E., Gutman, D. A., Bradley, B. A., Preuss, T. M., & Stout, D.
- Affiliations
- Emory University (US)
- University of Exeter (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Hecht, Erin E.
- Venue
- NeuroImage
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-03
- Volume
- 108
- Pages
- 124-137
- ISSN
- 1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4324003
- OpenAlex
- W1994212787
- Cited by
- 175
- References
- 127
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 44 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 5.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- NeuroImage (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Leverhulme Trust (F/00 144/BP)
- Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant and Osmundsen Initiative Award (7699)
- The John Templeton Foundation (40463)
- National Institutes of Health (RR-00165)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- superior longitudinal fasciculus, chimpanzees, human evolution, white matter connectivity, inferior frontal gyrus, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, dorsal premotor cortex, hemispheric lateralization, arcuate fasciculus, comparative neuroanatomy
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Brain Mapping, Pan troglodytes, Dissection, Biological Evolution, Female, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Male, Neural Pathways, Parietal Lobe, Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging, White Matter
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