Handedness: Dependent asymmetrical location of the human primary gustatory area, area G

NeuroReport

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 450-455

  Wakita, Masahito ^a   Kobayakawa, Tatu ^d   Saito, Sachiko ^d   Sakai, Nobuyuki ^e   Hiai, Yasuhiro ^b   Hirai, Toshinori ^a   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^a   Hasegawa, Kayoko ^a   Matsunaga, Kaoru ^c   Ogawa, Hisashi ^a,c  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Kumamoto Kinoh Hospital   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^e Kobe Shoin Women's University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Area G; Dominant hand; Functional MRI; Hemispheric asymmetry; Taste

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AREA G; ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GUSTATORY SYSTEM; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SPEECH; TASTE; BRAIN; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPEECH; TASTE PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62449239428     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3283267953     Document Type: Article

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