Explaining function with anatomy: Language lateralization and corpus callosum size

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 52, 2008, Pages 14132-14139

  Josse, Goulven ^a   Seghier, Mohamed L ^a   Kherif, Ferath ^a   Price, Cathy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Corpus callosum; fMRI; Language; Lateralization; Variability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN;

EID: 58149380102     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4383-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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