Minicolumnar structure in Heschl's gyrus and planum temporale: Asymmetries in relation to sex and callosal fiber number

Neuroscience

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1041-1050

  Chance, S A ^a   Casanova, M F ^b   Switala, A E ^b   Crow, T J ^c  

^a RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^c WARNEFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

association cortex; auditory cortex; corpus callosum; language; minicolumn; sex difference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOARCHITECTURE; FEMALE; HESCHL GYRUS; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PLANUM TEMPORALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AXONS; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 36048973925     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.08.057     Document Type: Article

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