Decussation as an axial twist: A Comment on Kinsbourne (2013)
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Department of Psychology and Sports Science, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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Department of Experimental Zoology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Developmental Biology, Neuroscience, Zoology
- Keywords
- body axis, embryogenesis, chiasm, decussation, brain evolution, situs inversus, brain asymmetry
- Copyright
- © 2014 de Lussanet et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2014. Decussation as an axial twist: A Comment on Kinsbourne (2013) PeerJ PrePrints 2:e432v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.432v1
Abstract
One of the great mysteries of the brain, which has puzzled all-time students of brain form and function, are the contralateral organization of the forebrain and the crossings of its major afferent and efferent connections. As a novel explanation, two recent studies have proposed that most of the forebrain is rotated by 180 degrees. Unfortunately, the latter study presented the first one in a misleading manner. We here discuss the similarities and differences between the two hypotheses.
Author Comment
This is a comment and is under review in Neuropsychology.