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ArticleCommunications biology2022

The medial occipital longitudinal tract supports early stage encoding of visuospatial information.

Ahmad Beyh, Flavio Dell'Acqua, Daniele Cancemi, Francisco De Santiago Requejo, Dominic Ffytche, Marco Catani

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Article in Communications biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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  7. Cortical and white matter substrates supporting visuospatial working memory.Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2024
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  8. Imaging of the superficial white matter in health and disease.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024
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6 authors.

Ahmad BeyhNatBrainLab, Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, SE5 8AF, UK. ahmad.beyh@kcl.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9071-0150
Flavio Dell'AcquaNatBrainLab, Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopment, Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, SE5 8AF, UK.
Daniele CancemiNatBrainLab, Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, SE5 8AF, UK.
Francisco De Santiago RequejoNatBrainLab, Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, SE5 8AF, UK.
Dominic FfytcheDepartment of Old Age Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, SE5 8AF, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4214-9642
Marco CataniNatBrainLab, Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, SE5 8AF, UK.

Funding

Mapping the Human Connectome: Structure, Function, and HeritabilityU54MH091657 · NIMH · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI UGURBIL, KAMIL, VAN ESSEN, DAVID C · 2010 to 2014
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NIMH NIH HHS U54 MH091657Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 103759/Z/14/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Visuospatial learning depends on the parahippocampal place area (PPA), a functionally heterogenous area which current visuospatial processing models place downstream from parietal cortex and only from area V4 of early visual cortex (EVC). However, evidence for anatomical connections between the PPA and other EVC areas is inconsistent, and these connections are not discussed in current models. Through a data-driven analysis based on diffusion MRI tractography, we present evidence that the PPA sits at the confluence of two white matter systems. The first conveys information from the retrosplenial complex to the anterior PPA and runs within the cingulum bundle. The second system connects all peripheral EVC areas to the posterior PPA and corresponds to the medial occipital longitudinal tract (MOLT), a white matter pathway that is distinct from the cingulum and that we describe here in detail. Based on further functional connectivity analysis and meta-analytic data, we propose that the MOLT supports early stage encoding of visuospatial information by allowing direct reciprocal exchange between the PPA and EVC. Our findings may improve symptom interpretation in stroke and tumour patients with damage to the medial occipito-temporal region and call for revisiting current visuospatial processing models.

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Nerve NetWhite MatterHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingParietal LobeTemporal Lobe

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