association fiber


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association fiber

n.
Any of the nerve fibers connecting individual subdivisions of a brain structure or different segments of the spinal cord.
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In Geschwind's model the grammatical and lexical representations of language arise in the superior temporal gyrus (Wernicke's area) of the LH, and these representations are transformed via a band of association fibers that course around the sylvian lip through the angular gyrus and into the frontal lobe, terminating in the third frontal convolution of the LH (Broca's Area).
AN EXAMINATION OF THE FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BRAIN AND LANGUAGE

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