Behavioral laterality advance: Neuroanatomical evidence for the existence of hemisity

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 34-42

  Morton, Bruce E ^a   Rafto, Stein E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortical asymmetry; Binary behavioral laterality; Executive system laterality; Familial polarity; Hemisity; Hemisphericity; Unilateral executive element

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951981745     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

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