The DOI matches its Crossref record; 33 of the 33 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
White Matter Asymmetry in the Human Brain: A Diffusion Tensor MRI Study
Open accessAbstract
Language ability and handedness are likely to be associated with asymmetry of the cerebral cortex (grey matter) and connectivity (white matter). Grey matter asymmetry, most likely linked to language has been identified with voxel-based morphometry (VBM) using T(1)-weighted images. Differences in white matter obtained with this technique are less consistent, probably due to the relative insensitivity of the T(1) contrast to the ultrastructure of white matter. Furthermore, previous VBM studies failed to find differences related to handedness in either grey or white matter. We revisited these issues and investigated two independent groups of subjects with diffusion-tensor imaging (DTI) for asymmetries in white matter composition. Using voxel-based statistical analyses an asymmetry of the arcuate fascicle was observed, with higher fractional anisotropy in the left hemisphere. In addition, we show differences related to handedness in the white matter underneath the precentral gyrus contralateral to the dominant hand. Remarkably, these findings were very robust, even when investigating small groups of subjects. This highlights the sensitivity of DTI for white matter tissue differences, making it an ideal tool to study small patient populations.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
The assessment and analysis of handedness: The Edinburgh inventory
Oldfield, R. C. (1971) · Neuropsychologia · doi:10.1016/0028-3932(71)90067-4 · Cited by 35,900
Voxel-Based Morphometry—The Methods
Ashburner, J., & Friston, K. J. (2000) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1006/nimg.2000.0582 · Cited by 8,676
Estimation of the Effective Self-Diffusion Tensor from the NMR Spin Echo
Basser, P. J., Mattiello, J., & Lebihan, D. (1994) · Journal of Magnetic Resonance, Series B · doi:10.1006/jmrb.1994.1037 · Cited by 3,650
DISCONNEXION SYNDROMES IN ANIMALS AND MAN
GESCHWIND, N. (1965) · Brain · doi:10.1093/brain/88.2.237 · Cited by 3,403
Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers
Maguire, E. A., Gadian, D. G., Johnsrude, I. S., Good, C. D., Ashburner, J., Frackowiak, R. S. J., & Frith, C. D. (2000) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.070039597 · Cited by 3,225
Localization of the motor hand area to a knob on the precentral gyrus. A new landmark
Yousry, T. (1997) · Brain · doi:10.1093/brain/120.1.141 · Cited by 1,837
Basser, P. J. (1995) · NMR in Biomedicine · doi:10.1002/nbm.1940080707 · Cited by 1,519
Structural maturation of neural pathways in children and adolescents: in vivo study
Paus, T., Zijdenbos, A., Worsley, K., Collins, D. L., Blumenthal, J., Giedd, J. N., Rapoport, J. L., & Evans, A. C. (1999) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.283.5409.1908 · Cited by 1,322
Good, C. D., Johnsrude, I., Ashburner, J., Henson, R. N. A., Friston, K. J., & Frackowiak, R. S. J. (2001) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1006/nimg.2001.0857 · Cited by 1,213
Multisubject fMRI Studies and Conjunction Analyses
Friston, K. J., Holmes, A. P., Price, C. J., Büchel, C., & Worsley, K. J. (1999) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1006/nimg.1999.0484 · Cited by 1,090
Self-citation
Cited by
Microstructural maturation of the human brain from childhood to adulthood
Lebel, C., Walker, L., Leemans, A., Phillips, L., & Beaulieu, C. (2008) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.12.053 · Cited by 1,398
Diffusion tensor imaging of white matter tract evolution over the lifespan
Lebel, C., Gee, M., Camicioli, R., Wieler, M., Martin, W., & Beaulieu, C. (2012) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.11.094 · Cited by 1,100
Dubois, J., Dehaene-Lambertz, G., Kulikova, S., Poupon, C., Hüppi, P. S., & Hertz-Pannier, L. (2014) · Neuroscience · doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.12.044 · Cited by 851
Tamnes, C. K., Østby, Y., Fjell, A. M., Westlye, L. T., Due-Tønnessen, P., & Walhovd, K. B. (2010) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhp118 · Cited by 779
CATANI, M., & MESULAM, M. (2008) · Cortex · doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2008.04.002 · Cited by 760
Metadata
- Authors
- Büchel, C., Raedler, T., Sommer, M., Sach, M., Weiller, C., & Koch, M. A.
- Venue
- Cerebral Cortex
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2004-09
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 945-951
- ISSN
- 1047-3211 (ISSN-L)
- 1460-2199
- OpenAlex
- W2123672494
- Cited by
- 334
- References
- 33
- FWCI
- 13.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: White Matter Asymmetry in the Human Brain: A Diffusion Tensor MRI Study. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1093/cercor/bhh055
- The paper
- Büchel, C., Raedler, T., Sommer, M., Sach, M., Weiller, C., & Koch, M. A. (2004). White Matter Asymmetry in the Human Brain: A Diffusion Tensor MRI Study. Cerebral Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhh055
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
