Does language lateralization depend on the hippocampus?

Brain

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1217-1218

  Knecht, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APHASIA; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN MAPPING; CONVALESCENCE; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; EDITORIAL; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX RECRUITMENT; SUBICULUM;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CHILD; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

EID: 2942536416     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh202     Document Type: Editorial

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