Medial position and counterclockwise rotation of the parietal scalp hair-whorl as a possible indicator for non-right-handedness

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Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages 848-854

  Schmidt, Heinrich ^a,b   Depner, Martin ^a   Kabesch, Michael ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Community Paediatric Practice ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Handedness; Parietal whorl; Position; Swirling direction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL WHORL; PEDIATRICS; POSITION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; ROTATION; SCALP HAIR;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAIR; HUMANS; MALE; SCALP;

EID: 51449095171     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2008.113     Document Type: Article

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