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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Lang. 2012 Dec 1;126(1):49–61. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.10.001

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Thalamic nuclei that serve as a hub for distributed neural circuits associated with language. The nodes of networks that interact with the thalamus include: the frontal cortex, which consists of motor, premotor, and prefrontal areas; basal ganglia; cerebellum; dopaminergic groups from the mesencephalic substantia nigra pars compacta and the ventral tegmental area; and the inhibitory thalamic reticular nucleus (TRN).