Insights into the functional specificity of the human corpus callosum

Brain

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 920-926

  Funnell, Margaret G ^a   Corballis, Paul M ^a   Gazzaniga, Michael S ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Callosotomy; Corpus callosum; Interhemispheric transfer; Splenium; Split brain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE REPORT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 0034006401     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/123.5.920     Document Type: Article

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