The association between scalp hair-whorl direction, handedness and hemispheric language dominance:. Is there a common genetic basis of lateralization?

NeuroImage

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 853-861

  Jansen, Andreas ^a   Lohmann, Hubertus ^a   Scharfe, Stefanie ^a   Sehlmeyer, Christina ^a   Deppe, Michael ^a   Knecht, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

fTCD; Handedness; Hemispheric specialization; Language lateralization; Scalp hair whorl direction

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP HAIR; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAIR; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCALP; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 33947129241     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.12.025     Document Type: Article

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