{"id":7282,"date":"2019-05-22T15:55:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/anterior_commissure\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:55:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:55:11","slug":"anterior_commissure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/anterior_commissure\/","title":{"rendered":"Anterior commissure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small, round bundle of nerve fibers connected to the corpus callosum that crosses the midline of the brain near anterior limit of the third ventricle (see figure below). &nbsp;One of three groups of commissural fibers, it connects, like the corpus callosum, the right and left cerebral hemispheres. &nbsp;Its smaller anterior part has fibers that connect the bilateral olfactory bulbs, and a larger posterior part that has a tract between the temporal lobes (as well as connecting these lobes to the amygdala and the opposite occipital lobe). &nbsp;Anterior commissure also refers to the point at the front of the larynx where the vocal folds join.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image020.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Location of the anterior commissure<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"amygdala\">Amygdala<\/a>, <a href=\"cortical_lobes\">Cortical lobes<\/a>, <a href=\"corpus_callosum\">Corpus callosum<\/a>, <a href=\"larynx\">Larynx<\/a>, <a href=\"ventricle\">Ventricle<\/a>, Vocal folds<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small, round bundle of nerve fibers connected to the corpus callosum that crosses the midline of the brain near anterior limit of the third ventricle (see figure below). &nbsp;One of three groups of commissural fibers, it connects, like the corpus callosum, the right and left cerebral hemispheres. &nbsp;Its smaller anterior part has fibers that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/anterior_commissure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anterior commissure&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}