Language dominance, handedness and sex: Recessive X-linkage theory and test

Cortex

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 781-786

  Jones, Gregory V ^a   Martin, Maryanne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebral dominance; Handedness; Language dominance; Sex; X linkage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENDER; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; PREDICTION; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SAMPLE SIZE; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

BRAIN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENES, X-LINKED; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR SKILLS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 77950341490     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.07.009     Document Type: Article

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