Journal
CORTEX
Volume 69, Issue -, Pages 141-151Publisher
ELSEVIER MASSON, CORP OFF
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.05.011
Keywords
White matter; Language; Semantics; Ventral pathway; Temporal lobe
Funding
- BBSRC [BB/J014478/1]
- MRC [MR/J004146/1]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [1354177, 1626624] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [MR/J004146/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [MR/J004146/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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It is now ten years since a 'ventral language pathway' was demonstrated in vivo in the human brain. In the intervening decade, this result has been replicated and expanded to include multiple possible pathways and functions. Despite this considerable level of research interest, age-old debates regarding the origin, course, termination and, indeed, the very existence of the tracts identified still remain. The current review examines four major tracts associated with the ventral 'semantic' language network, with the aim of elucidating and clarifying their structural and functional roles. Historical and modern conceptualisations of the tracts neuroanatomical origins and terminations will be discussed, and key discrepancies and debates examined. It is argued that much of the controversy regarding the language pathways has resulted from inconsistencies in terminology, and the lack of a white matter 'lingua franca'. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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