Functional transcranial Doppler sonography and a spatial orientation paradigm identify the non-dominant hemisphere

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 53-58

  Dorst, J ^a   Haag, A ^b   Knake, S ^b   Oertel, W H ^b   Hamer, H M ^b   Rosenow, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Functional transcranial Doppler sonography; Non dominant hemisphere; Right; Spatial orientation; Word generation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 52949087162     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2008.02.123     Document Type: Article

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