Variation in brain lateralization during various language tasks: A functional transcranial Doppler study

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 190-196

  Stroobant, Nathalie ^a   Buijs, Diewertje ^a   Vingerhoets, Guy ^a  

^a Laboratory for Neuropsychology   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; Functional Doppler ultrasonography; Hemispheric language dominance; Language lateralization; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 61349095304     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.11.040     Document Type: Article

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