Publications of Yannick Becker

Hecht, E. E., Vijayakumar, S., Becker, Y., & Hopkins, W. D. (2025). Individual variation in the chimpanzee arcuate fasciculus predicts vocal and gestural communication. Nature Communications, 16. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-58784-5

Friederici, A. D., & Becker, Y. (2025). The core language network separated from other networks during primate evolution. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 26, 131–132.

Becker, Y., Phelipon, R., Marie, D., Bouziane, S., Marchetti, R., Sein, J., … Meguerditchian, A. (2024). Planum temporale asymmetry in newborn monkeys predicts the future development of gestural communication's handedness. Nature Communications, 15. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-47277-6

Becker, Y., Loh, K. K., Coulon, O., & Meguerditchian, A. (2022). Arcuate fasciculus' middle and ventral temporal connections undercut by tract-tracing evidence. Brain, 145, e66–e68.

Becker, Y., & Meguerditchian, A. (2022). Structural brain asymmetries for language: A comparative approach across primates. Symmetry, 14. doi:10.3390/sym14050876

Becker, Y., Loh, K. K., Coulon, O., & Meguerditchian, A. (2022). The Arcuate Fasciculus and language origins: Disentangling existing conceptions that influence evolutionary accounts. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 134. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.12.013

Becker, Y., Phelipon, R., Sein, J., Velly, L., Renaud, L., & Meguerditchian, A. (2022). Planum temporale grey matter volume asymmetries in newborn monkeys (Papio anubis). Brain Structure & Function, 227, 463–468.

Becker, Y., Claidière, N., Margiotoudi, K., Marie, D., Roth, M., Nazarian, B., … Meguerditchian, A. (2022). Broca's cerebral asymmetry reflects gestural communication's lateralisation in monkeys (Papio anubis). ELife, 11. doi:10.7554/eLife.70521

Becker, Y., Sein, J., Velly, L., Giacomino, L., Renaud, L., Lacoste, R., … Meguerditchian, A. (2021). Early left-planum temporale asymmetry in newborn monkeys (Papio anubis): A longitudinal structural MRI study at two stages of development. NeuroImage, 227. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117575

Milham, M., Petkov, C. I., Margulies, D. S., Schroeder, C. E., Basso, M. A., Belin, P., … Zhou, Y.-di. (2020). Accelerating the evolution of nonhuman primate neuroimaging. Neuron, 105, 600–603.

Boë, L.-J., Berthommier, F., Legou, T., Captier, G., Kemp, C., Sawallis, T. R., … Fagot, J. (2017). Evidence of a vocalic proto-system in the baboon (Papio papio) suggests pre-hominin speech precursors. PLoS One, 12. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0169321