Adult structure and development of the human frontoopercular cerebral cortex (Broca's region)

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 21, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 975-989

  Judas, Milos ^a   Cepanec, Maja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Cytoarchitectonics; Inferior frontal gyrus; Mirror neurons; Motor speech area

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOARCHITECTURE; FRONTOOPERCULAR CEREBRAL CORTEX; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROANATOMY; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 35848959896     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: 14645076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200701617175     Document Type: Conference Paper

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