@AlfredAnwander

Neuroscientist and connectome researcher. Human & chimpanzee brain connectivity / microstructure using diffusion MRI. Learning & brain plasticity @FriedericiLab

 Max Planck Institute, Leipzig
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Joined September 2013
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#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/s41467-0… @YannickBecker7 @FriedericiLab @TaiChimpProject @MPI_CBS
Yannick Becker (@ybecker.bsky.social)@YannickBecker715 May 2025
🚨 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 🧵👇
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bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv_neursci16 May 2025
Retinal nerve fibre layer thickness reflects characteristics of brain grey and white matter biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biorxiv_neursci

Retinal nerve fibre layer thickness reflects characteristics of brain grey and white matter

The retina is a relatively accessible part of the central nervous system compared to the brain. Using high resolution optical imaging we investigated the relationship between retinal thickness,...

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Yannick Becker (@ybecker.bsky.social)@YannickBecker715 May 2025
🚨 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 🧵👇
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MPI für Kognitions- & Neurowissenschaften@MPI_CBS15 May 2025
#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/2358103/20250515

Language connection discovered in chimpanzee brains

Language connection discovered in chimpanzee brains

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Christa Müller-Axt@MullerAxt12 Aug 2024
🚨 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/awae23… A thread 🧵👇 (1/5)

Dysfunction of the magnocellular subdivision of the visual thalamus in developmental dyslexia

Prior post-mortem research has linked developmental dyslexia to histological alterations in the magnocellular lateral geniculate nucleus (M-LGN), but this

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

Chimpanzee Brain

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Nature Methods@naturemethods12 Jun 2024
Our June issue is now live! 🎉 nature.com/nmeth/volumes/21/… On the cover, a transverse view of a whole-brain tract-density reconstruction of white matter pathways in the brain of a chimpanzee. Paper here: nature.com/articles/s41592-0… The beautiful image is courtesy of @CornEichner.
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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/21/…
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Amazing diffusion MRI resource showing incredible anatomical detail. Chimpanzee Brain Connectivity Atlas and MRI data available online: openscience.cbs.mpdl.mpg.de/… . Many thanks to all members of the Evolutionary Brain Connectivity (EBC) Consortium!

Chimpanzee Brain

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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/2234520/20240603?…

Connections in the chimpanzee brain made visible

Connections in the chimpanzee brain made visible

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Nature Methods@naturemethods3 Jun 2024
And read the Research Briefing on this work here: nature.com/articles/s41592-0…

Ultra-high-resolution diffusion MRI resource of chimpanzee white matter connectivity

Nature Methods - Comparing brain connectivity between chimpanzees and humans is a means of understanding human cognition and evolution. To address the scarcity of chimpanzee neuroimaging data, we...

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Nature Methods@naturemethods3 Jun 2024
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/s41592-0…
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MPI für Kognitions- & Neurowissenschaften@MPI_CBS3 Jun 2024
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
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Taï Chimpanzee Project@TaiChimpProject8 Jan 2024
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.…
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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.2306286… White matter plasticity during second language learning within and across hemispheres. @XuehuWei @tomasgoucha
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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
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4/4: More details in the press release: cbs.mpg.de/2206561/20230108 and the #OpenAccess article: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
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MPI für Kognitions- & Neurowissenschaften@MPI_CBS8 Jan 2024
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
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Max Planck Society@maxplanckpress8 Jan 2024
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/2206561/20230108?… @XuehuWei @AlfredAnwander
The researchers have visualised the neuronal pathways involved in language learning on the computer. © MPI CBS

ALT The researchers have visualised the neuronal pathways involved in language learning on the computer. © MPI CBS

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Congratulations, Xuehu, on defending your excellent doctoral thesis 🥳🎉🍾 and all the best for your future scientific career.
Xuehu Wei@XuehuWei23 Nov 2023
Super grateful to my supervisors,all colleagues, and friends.
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