Corpus callosum size is linked to dichotic deafness and hemisphericity, not sex or handedness

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-8

  Morton, Bruce E ^a   Rafto, Stein E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Behavior; Brain; Cognition; Dichotic listening; Laterality; Left brain; Polarity; Right brain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; GENDER; HANDEDNESS; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; ORGAN SIZE; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33748527168     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2006.03.001     Document Type: Article

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