Blog Post Image: Major brain pathway rediscovered after century-old confusion, controversy

This series of images shows drawings of brain connections that the researchers found in the various atlases they studied. Heinrich Obersteiner’s 1888 schematic, Sir Edward Schaefer’s 1893 woodblock carving, and Gray’s 1918 illustration all show the vertical occipital fasciculus. But Ludwig Edinger’s 1885 drawing leaves out the fiber pathway. Image credit: Jason Yeatman (click image to enlarge)