Gender-specific left-right asymmetries in human visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1356-1364

  Amunts, Katrin ^a,b   Armstrong, Este ^a   Malikovic, Aleksandar ^a   Hömke, Lars ^a   Mohlberg, Hartmut ^a   Schleicher, Axel ^c   Zilles, Karl ^a,c  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Cortical surface; Cytoarchitecture; Gender differences; Human brain anatomy; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL SIZE; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; ORGAN SIZE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33846999667     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4753-06.2007     Document Type: Article

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