A robust cerebral asymmetry in the infant brain: The rightward superior temporal sulcus

NeuroImage

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 716-723

  Glasel, H ^a,b,c   Leroy, F ^a,b,c   Dubois, J ^a,b,c   Hertz Pannier, L ^a,c,d,e   Mangin, J F ^c,e   Dehaene Lambertz, G ^a,b,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c NeuroSpin   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^e DIF   (France)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Brain; Infant; Language; MRI; Temporal

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; SYLVIAN FISSURE; THEORY OF MIND;

BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 80052147063     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.06.016     Document Type: Article

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