Structural organization of the corpus callosum predicts the extent and impact of cortical activity in the nondominant hemisphere

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2912-2918

  Putnam, Mary Colvin ^a,b   Wig, Gagan S ^a,c   Grafton, Scott T ^a,d   Kelley, William M ^a   Gazzaniga, Michael S ^a,d  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Hemispheric asymmetry; Individual differences; Laterality; Memory; Neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 40849136459     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2295-07.2008     Document Type: Article

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