Cerebral asymmetries in monozygotic twins: An fMRI study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3086-3093

  Badzakova Trajkov, Gjurgjica ^a   Häberling, Isabelle S ^a   Corballis, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Face processing; Genetics; Handedness; Language; Laterality; Mirror twins; Spatial judgment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TWIN CONCORDANCE; TWIN DISCORDANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955267655     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.06.020     Document Type: Article

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