Can Cantonese rhymes be used in the assessment of hemispheric dominance for language?

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 463, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 103-107

  Chan, Suk Tak ^a   Tang, Sze Wing ^a   Lee, Wing Kit ^a   Tang, Kwok Wing ^b   Lo, Shing Shun ^c   Kwong, Kenneth K ^d  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^c UNITED CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cantonese; Hemispheric dominance; Language; Rhyme

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PERIODICITY; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68349135271     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.07.057     Document Type: Article

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