Neurophysiological origin of human brain asymmetry for speech and language

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 43, 2010, Pages 18688-18693

  Morillon, Benjamin ^a   Lehongre, Katia ^a   Frackowiak, Richard S J ^b,c   Ducorps, Antoine ^d   Kleinschmidt, Andreas ^e   Poeppel, David ^f   Giraud, Anne Lise ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^d PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^e Commissariat Á l'Energie Atomique ^*  (France)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EEG functional MRI; Natural stimulation; Oscillation; Resting state

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPEECH; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 78649815928     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1007189107     Document Type: Article

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