Asymmetry in the human motor cortex and handedness

NeuroImage

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 216-222

  Amunts, Katrin ^a   Schlaug, Gottfried ^b   Schleicher, Axel ^a   Steinmetz, Helmuth ^b   Dabringhaus, Andreas ^a   Roland, Per E ^c   Zilles, Karl ^a  

^a C and O Vogt Institute of Brain Research   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS;

EID: 0030457210     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nimg.1996.0073     Document Type: Article

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