Functional relevance of interindividual differences in temporal lobe callosal pathways: A DTI tractography study

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1322-1329

  Westerhausen, René ^a   Grüner, Renate ^a,b   Specht, Karsten ^a,b   Hugdahl, Kenneth ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Dichotic listening; Diffusion tensor imaging; Inter individual differences; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CONSONANT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR TRACTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOPOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 66549129831     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn173     Document Type: Article

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