Bidirectional neural connectivity between basal temporal and posterior language areas in humans. Issue 4 (April 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Araki, Kunihiko; Terada, Kiyohito; Usui, Keiko; Usui, Naotaka; Araki, Yasukiyo; Baba, Koichi; Matsuda, Kazumi; Tottori, Takayasu; Inoue, Yushi
• Is Part Of: Clinical neurophysiology. Volume 126:Issue 4(2015:Apr.)
• Page Start: 682
• Page End: 688
• Publication Date: 2015-04
• Subjects: Neurophysiology -- Periodicals; Electroencephalography -- Periodicals; Electromyography -- Periodicals; Neurology -- Periodicals; 612.8
• DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2014.07.020
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1388-2457

Abstract

<abstract xml:lang="en" abstract-type="author-highlights" id="ab005"> <title id="st060">Highlights</title> <sec> <p id="sp0005"> <list id="l0005"> <list-item id="o0005"> <label></label> <p id="p0130">Basal temporal language area (BTL) plays an important role to convert visual semantic information into phonological representation.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="o0010"> <label></label> <p id="p0135">Neural connectivity between BTL and other language areas is not well known, because no study of direct BTL stimulation has been reported.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="o0015"> <label></label> <p id="p0140">We demonstrated the neural connectivity between BTL and Wernicke's language area by cortico-cortical evoked potential method.</p> </list-item> </list> </p> </sec> </abstract>