Left-handedness and achievements in foreign language studies

Brain and Language

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 504-517

  Lamm, O ^a   Epstein, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b Yael Inst Assess Cogn Functions   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; SCHOOL CHILD; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032759308     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.1999.2161     Document Type: Article

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