PET study of the localization and laterality of lingual somatosensory processing in humans

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 234, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 23-26

  Pardo, José V ^a,b   Wood, Timothy D ^a,b   Costello, Patricia A ^a,b   Pardo, Patricia J ^a,b   Lee, Joel T ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain mapping; Language; Laterality; Positron emission tomography; Primary somatosensory cortex; Regional cerebral blood flow; Somatosensory processing; Taste; Tongue

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TASTE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; REFERENCE VALUES; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TONGUE;

EID: 0030752684     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00650-2     Document Type: Article

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