Can the language-dominant hemisphere be predicted by brain anatomy?

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2013-2029

  Keller, Simon S ^a   Roberts, Neil ^b   García Fiñana, Marta ^c   Mohammadi, Siawoosh ^a   Ringelstein, E Bernd ^a   Knecht, Stefan ^a   Deppe, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLANUM TEMPORALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOLOGY; SYLVIAN FISSURE;

EID: 79957994380     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21563     Document Type: Article

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