Bidirectional connectivity between hemispheres occurs at multiple levels in language processing but depends on sex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 35, 2010, Pages 11576-11585

  Bitan, Tali ^a   Lifshitz, Adi ^a   Breznitz, Zvia ^a   Booth, James R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; AUDITORY CORTEX; CEREBRUM; CHILD; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPEECH; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 77956252931     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1245-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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