Beyond hemispheric dominance: Brain regions underlying the joint lateralization of language and arithmetic to the left hemisphere

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 48-66

  Pinel, Philippe ^a,b,c   Dehaene, Stanislas ^a,b,c,d  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

^b DIF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; READING; SPEECH;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; PARIETAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73249137945     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21184     Document Type: Article

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