Variability in the anatomy of the planum temporale and posterior ascending ramus: Do right- and left handers differ?

Brain and Language

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 403-424

  Foundas, Anne L ^a,b   Leonard, Christiana M ^a,b   Hanna Pladdy, Brenda ^a,b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Handedness; Hemispheric specialization; Human brain; Laterality; Planum temporale

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0036920008     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(02)00509-6     Document Type: Article

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