Alfred Anwander @AlfredAnwander.bsky.social

#Evolution of #language revisited: Long arcuate fascicle was found in #chimpanzees using high-resolution diffusion MRI #tractography of animals that died naturally in the jungle. Now in Nature Comm: nature.com/articles/s4146… @YannickBecker7 @FriedericiLab @TaiChimpProject @MPI_CBS

Retinal nerve fibre layer thickness reflects characteristics of brain grey and white matter biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_neursci

🚨 Language connection FOUND in chimpanzees? 🧠🗣️ For years, scientists thought the key to human language was a fibre connection, missing in chimp brains. New high-res brain scans just changed the game. 👀🐒 📖 Read the full story: rdcu.be/el857 1/n 🧵👇

#Language connection discovered in #chimpanzee brains 🐵 @YannickBecker7 @AlfredAnwander & @FriedericiLab , in collab with @MPI_EVA_Leipzig and @AWI_de, have identified a neuronal connection in🐒, evolved from an evolutionary older structure.@NatureComms cbs.mpg.de/2358103/202505…

🚨 Paper alert! 🚨 We used ultra-high-res #7T #layerfMRI and #qMRI to reveal that #dyslexia is linked to #brain changes in the #magnocellular lateral geniculate nucleus (#LGN) of the visual #thalamus. 🧠 Now published in @Brain1878 👉doi.org/10.1093/brain/… A thread 🧵👇 (1/5)

Check out the 3D online viewer of diffusion MRI tractology in chimpanzee and the free #OpenData of this paper: openscience.cbs.mpdl.mpg.de/ebc

Mapping the white matter in chimpanzee now on the cover page of @naturemethods. Amazing work by @CornEichner and the Evolution of Brain Connectivity (EBC) team including @MPI_CBS @MPI_EVA_Leipzig @TaiChimpProject @NikWeiskopf & @FriedericiLab nature.com/nmeth/volumes/…

Many thanks to @TaiChimpProject for initiating this project and all collaborators, in particular @ConEichner, @PaquetteMic, @FriedericiLab, @NikWeiskopf, @MPI_CBS, @MPI_EVA_Leipzig, @AWI_Media Press release: cbs.mpg.de/2234520/202406…

Amazing diffusion MRI resource showing incredible anatomical detail. Chimpanzee Brain Connectivity Atlas and MRI data available online: openscience.cbs.mpdl.mpg.de/ebc . Many thanks to all members of the Evolutionary Brain Connectivity (EBC) Consortium!

And read the Research Briefing on this work here: nature.com/articles/s4159…

Interested in primate brain evolution? Then check out this Resource presenting a high-resolution diffusion MRI dataset of a chimpanzee brain. @CornEichner @AlfredAnwander @FriedericiLab @MPI_CBS nature.com/articles/s4159…

Researchers @CornEichner & @AlfredAnwander @FriedericiLab, with colleagues from @MPI_EVA_Leipzig and @AWI_de present in @naturemethods a freely accessible map of high-resolution #MRI data that shows the #brain structure of #chimpanzees for the first time: tinyurl.com/yr5nk3n2

NEW paper alert: The Evolution of Brain Connectivity Project is presenting the entire pipeline needed for the project. Starting with the behaviour @TaiChimpProject Brain structure and function: a multidisciplinary pipeline to study hominoid brain evolution frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

4/4: More details in the press release: cbs.mpg.de/2206561/202301… and the #OpenAccess article: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

3/4: Lexical learning strengthened the #semantic and #phonological subnetworks connecting the #language areas, as shown by network-based statistics. The #connectivity between the hemispheres decreased, which may indicate a reduced #inhibition of the left over the right hemisphere

Unlock your right hemisphere! Learning a second #language rewires your #brain to communicate and think in the new language. Now in PNAS @PNASNews doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… White matter plasticity during second language learning within and across hemispheres. @XuehuWei @tomasgoucha

Faszinierende Erkenntnisse von @XuehuWei, @AlfredAnwander & @FriedericiLab darüber, wie sich das #Gehirn verändert, wenn Erwachsene eine neue #Sprache lernen: tinyurl.com/9sxm7bxt #Zweitsprache #Lernen #deutschlernen #neuroscience #deutschkurs

Let's learn a new #language! 😀🧠 Scientists @MPI_CBS have unearthed fascinating evidence that the #brain undergoes important changes in wiring when we embark on the journey of learning a new language in adulthood. cbs.mpg.de/2206561/202301… @XuehuWei @AlfredAnwander

Congratulations, Xuehu, on defending your excellent doctoral thesis 🥳🎉🍾 and all the best for your future scientific career.