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  • adjective anatomy Around the sylvian fissure in the cerebral cortex

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  • It has been seven years since Schuyler was diagnosed with bilateral perisylvian polymicrogyria.

    Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords 2010

  • English speakers engage the left perisylvian cortices-areas that are typically involved in linguistic processing.

    Integral Options Cafe 2010

  • The present DTI findings suggest that the perisylvian inferior parietal, superior temporal, and lateral frontal corticies are tightly connected not only in the human left but also in the human right hemisphere.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2009

  • By using diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DTI) and subsequent tractography, a perisylvian language network in the human left hemisphere recently has been identified connecting Brocas's and Wernicke's areas directly (arcuate fasciculus) and indirectly by a pathway through the inferior parietal cortex.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2009

  • Phonemic paraphasias (for example, '' baby flitter '' for '' baby sitter ''), and semantic paraphasias ( '' clock '' for '' watch '', or '' apple '' for '' orange '') may also be seen, and reflect pathology in Broca's area and the posterior perisylvian region, respectively.

    British Blogs 2009

  • Furthermore, the gray matter has more volume in musician's brains, especially in primary sensorimotor regions, left basal ganglia, the bilateral cerebellum and the left posterior perisylvian region.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] Franz-Xaver Neubert 2008

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