Can left-handedness be switched? Insights from an early switch of handwriting

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 29, 2007, Pages 7847-7853

  Klöppel, Stefan ^a,b,d,h   Vongerichten, Anna ^a   Van Eimeren, Thilo ^a,c   Frackowiak, Richard S J ^b,e,f   Siebner, Hartwig R ^a,g  

^a NeuroImage Nord   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^f ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^h WELLCOME TRUST CENTRE FOR NEUROIMAGING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Converted left handers; fMRI; Handedness; Motor control; Parietal; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OXYGEN; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 34447627687     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1299-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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