Handedness and functional MRI-activation patterns in sentence processing

NeuroReport

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1339-1343

  Jörgens, Silke ^a,b   Kleiser, Raimund ^a   Indefrey, Peter ^c   Seitz, Rüdiger J ^a,b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Functional imaging; Handedness; Language lateralization; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HANDEDNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN;

EID: 34548357075     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32825a67db     Document Type: Article

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