Opposite Turning Behavior in Right-Handers and Non-Right-Handers Suggests a Link between Handedness and Cerebral Dopamine Asymmetries

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1448-1452

  Mohr, C ^a,b   Bracha, H S ^c   Landis, T ^a   Brugger, P ^b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SPEECH;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0346995342     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.117.6.1448     Document Type: Article

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