Publications of Alfred Anwander

Becker, Y., Eichner, C., Paquette, M., Bock, C., Girard-Buttoz, C., Jäger, C., … Anwander, A. (2025). Long arcuate fascicle in wild and captive chimpanzees as a potential structural precursor of the language network. Nature Communications, 16. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-59254-8

Eichner, C., & Anwander, A. (2024). Ultra-high-resolution diffusion MRI resource of chimpanzee white matter connectivity. Nature Methods, 21, 952–953.

Eichner, C., Paquette, M., Müller-Axt, C., Bock, C., Budinger, E., Gräßle, T., … Anwander, A. (2024). Detailed mapping of the complex fiber structure and white matter pathways of the chimpanzee brain. Nature Methods, 21, 1122–1130.

Wei, X., Gunter, T. C., Adamson, H., Schwendemann, M., Friederici, A. D., Goucha, T., & Anwander, A. (2024). White matter plasticity during second language learning within and across hemispheres. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121. doi:10.1073/pnas.2306286121

Friederici, A. D., Wittig, R. M., Anwander, A., Eichner, C., Gräßle, T., Jäger, C., … EBC Consortium. (2024). Brain structure and function: A multidisciplinary pipeline to study hominoid brain evolution. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 17. doi:10.3389/fnint.2023.1299087

Ayyildiz, N., Beyer, F., Üstün, S., Kale, E. H., Mançe Çalışır, Ö., Uran, P., … Çiçek, M. (2023). Changes in the superior longitudinal fasciculus and anterior thalamic radiation in the left brain are associated with developmental dyscalculia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2023.1147352

Gallardo, G., Eichner, C., Sherwood, C. C., Hopkins, W. D., Anwander, A., & Friederici, A. D. (2023). Morphological evolution of language-relevant brain areas. PLoS Biology, 21. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002266

Kanaan, A. S., Yu, D., Metere, R., Schäfer, A., Schlumm, T., Bilgic, B., … Möller, H. E. (2023). Convergent imaging-transcriptomic evidence for disturbed iron homeostasis in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome. Neurobiology of Disease, 185. doi:10.1016/j.nbd.2023.106252

Gräßle, T., Crockford, C., Eichner, C., Girard-Buttoz, C., Jäger, C., Kirilina, E., … Wittig, R. M. (2023). Sourcing high tissue quality brains from deceased wild primates with known socio-ecology. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14, 1906–1924.

Wei, X., Adamson, H., Schwendemann, M., Goucha, T., Friederici, A. D., & Anwander, A. (2023). Native language differences in the structural connectome of the human brain. NeuroImage, 270. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.119955

Sánchez, S. M., Schmidt, H., Gallardo, G., Anwander, A., Brauer, J., Friederici, A. D., & Knösche, T. R. (2023). White matter brain structure predicts language performance and learning success. Human Brain Mapping, 44, 1445–1455.

Fan, Q., Eichner, C., Afzali, M., Mueller, L., Tax, C. M. W., Davids, M., … Huang, S. Y. (2022). Mapping the human connectome using diffusion MRI at 300 mT/m gradient strength: Methodological advances and scientific impact. NeuroImage, 254. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.118958

Müller-Axt, C., Eichner, C., Rusch, H., Kauffmann, L., Bazin, P.-L., Anwander, A., … von Kriegstein, K. (2021). Mapping the human lateral geniculate nucleus and its cytoarchitectonic subdivisions using quantitative MRI. NeuroImage, 244. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118559

Thieleking, R., Zhang, R., Paerisch, M., Wirkner, K., Anwander, A., Beyer, F., … Witte, A. V. (2021). Same brain, different look? The impact of scanner, sequence and preprocessing on diffusion imaging outcome parameters. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 10. doi:10.3390/jcm10214987

Stockert, A., Schwartze, M., Poeppel, D., Anwander, A., & Kotz, S. A. (2021). Temporo-cerebellar connectivity underlies timing constraints in audition. ELife, 10. doi:10.7554/eLife.67303

Eichner, C., Paquette, M., Mildner, T., Schlumm, T., Pléh, K., Samuni, L., … Anwander, A. (2020). Increased sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio in diffusion-weighted MRI using multi-echo acquisitions. NeuroImage, 221. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117172

Balezeau, F., Wilson, B., Gallardo, G., Dick , F., Hopkins, W., Anwander, A., … Petkov, C. I. (2020). Primate auditory prototype in the evolution of the arcuate fasciculus. Nature Neuroscience, 23, 611–614.

Ekerdt, C., Kühn, C., Anwander, A., Brauer, J., & Friederici, A. D. (2020). Word learning reveals white matter plasticity in preschool children. Brain Structure & Function, 225, 607–619.

Finkl, T., Hahne, A., Friederici, A. D., Gerber, J., Mürbe, D., & Anwander, A. (2020). Language without speech: Segregating distinct circuits in the human brain. Cerebral Cortex, 30, 812–823.

Babayan, A., Erbey, M., Kumral, D., Reinelt, J., Reiter, A., Röbbig, J., … Villringer, A. (2019). A mind-brain-body dataset of MRI, EEG, cognition, emotion, and peripheral physiology in young and old adults. Scientific Data, 6. doi:10.1038/sdata.2018.308