Regional and hemispheric determinants of language laterality: Implications for preoperative fMRI

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1602-1614

  Seghier, Mohamed L ^a   Kherif, Ferath ^a   Josse, Goulven ^a   Price, Cathy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Functional MRI; Inter hemispheric dissociation; Language; Laterality index; Laterality maps; Left and right hemisphere activity; Semantic processing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052675548     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21130     Document Type: Article

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