Meningitis and the evolution of dominance of righthandedness

Cortex

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 723-732

  Bol, Pieter ^a   Scheirs, Jan G M ^b   Spanjaard, Lodewijk ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; ENCEPHALITIS; EVOLUTION; EYE MOVEMENT; HANDEDNESS; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 0031441049     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70729-9     Document Type: Article

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