Outstanding language competence and cytoarchitecture in Broca's speech region

Brain and Language

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 346-353

  Amunts, Katrin ^a   Schleicher, Axel ^b   Zilles, Karl ^a,b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain asymmetry; Broca's region; Cytoarchitecture; History of medicine; Language; Morphometry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN;

ADULT; AGED; APTITUDE; CELL COUNT; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FAMOUS PERSONS; FRONTAL LOBE; GERMANY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; NEURONS; PORTRAITS; REFERENCE VALUES; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 1842450241     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00360-2     Document Type: Article

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