Hemispheric asymmetries and bimanual asynchrony in left- and right-handers

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 531-536

  Viviani, Paolo ^a,b   Perani, Daniela ^c   Grassi, Franco ^c   Bettinardi, Valentino ^c   Fazio, Ferruccio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asynchrony; Bimanual coordination; Hemispheric dominance; Motor cortex; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS;

ADULT; ARM; CEREBELLUM; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0031839810     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050428     Document Type: Article

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