Association between scalp hair-whorl direction and hemispheric language dominance

NeuroImage

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 539-543

  Weber, Bernd ^a   Hoppe, Christian ^a   Faber, Jennifer ^a   Axmacher, Nikolai ^a   Fließbach, Klaus ^a   Mormann, Florian ^a   Weis, Susanne ^a   Ruhlmann, Jürgen ^a   Elger, Christian E ^a   Fernández, Guillén ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP HAIR; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN MAPPING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAIR; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SCALP; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33645115815     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.09.037     Document Type: Article

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