Lateralization is predicted by reduced coupling from the left to right prefrontal cortex during semantic decisions on written words

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1519-1531

  Seghier, Mohamed L ^a   Josse, Goulven ^a   Leff, Alexander P ^a   Price, Cathy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dynamic causal modelling; effective connectivity; functional MRI; inter hemispheric interactions; language laterality; semantic decision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; VERBALIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COHORT STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FORECASTING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; SEMANTICS; WRITING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959448044     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq203     Document Type: Article

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