Hand preference and sex shape the architecture of language networks

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 828-835

  Hagmann, Patric ^a,b   Cammoun, Leila ^a   Martuzzi, Roberto ^b   Maeder, Philippe ^b   Clarke, Stephanie ^b   Thiran, Jean Philippe ^a   Meuli, Reto ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Accurate fasciculus; Brain asymmetry; Broca; Connectivity; Corpus callosum; Diffusion MRI; DTI; Fibertracking; Hand preference; Handedness; Language; Sex; Tractography; Wernicke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARCUATE FASCICULUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN REGION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SEX DIFFERENCE; WERNICKE AREA;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; SEX FACTORS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33746599036     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20224     Document Type: Article

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