Who actually read Exner? Returning to the source of the frontal " writing centre" hypothesis

Cortex

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1204-1210

  Roux, Franck Emmanuel ^a   Draper, Louisa ^a   Köpke, Barbara ^b   Démonet, Jean François ^a  

^a TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Université de Toulouse II Le Mirail   (France)

Author keywords

Agraphia; Brain mapping; Exner's area; Sigmund Exner; Writing

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL SENSATION; AGNOSIA; AGRAPHIA; APHASIA; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLINDNESS; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN MAPPING; DOCTORAL EDUCATION; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAPHEMIC MOTOR FRONTAL AREA; HANDWRITING; HEMIPARESIS; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INSULA; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSIC; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCIENTIST; TEACHER; TEMPORAL BONE; WRITING;

AGRAPHIA; AUSTRIA; FRONTAL LOBE; HANDWRITING; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; TEXTBOOKS AS TOPIC;

EID: 77956490105     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

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