Image of the Day: Brain Wiring

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Neural pathways form a mesh, with yellow representing language and connecting the frontal lobe on the left to the temporal lobe on the right, and the purple curlicue representing Broca's area, which coordinates speech.

By The Scientist Staff | February 20, 2013

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Courtesy of VJ Wedeen and LL Wald, Martinos Center, Harvard Medical School, Human Connectome Project

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