Morphology of the planum temporale and corpus callosum in left handers with evidence of left and right hemisphere speech representation

Brain

Volumn 121, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2369-2379

  Moffat, Scott D ^a,c   Hampson, Elizabeth ^a   Lee, Donald H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Handedness; MRI; Planum temporale; Speech lateralization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH;

EID: 0031774606     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/121.12.2369     Document Type: Article

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