Brain correlates of right-handedness

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-51

  Gut, Malgorzata ^a   Urbanik, Andrzej ^b   Forsberg, Lars ^c   Binder, Marek ^d   Rymarczyk, Krystyna ^a   Sobiecka, Barbara ^b   Kozub, Justyna ^b   Grabowska, Anna ^a  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Activation; Cerebellum; Handedness; Hemispheric asymmetry; Motor function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOVEMENT; OXYGEN; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STATISTICS;

EID: 34247340520     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: 00651400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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