The Corpus Callosum in monozygotic twins concordant and discordant for handedness and language dominance

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1971-1982

  Häberling, Isabelle S ^a   Badzakova Trajkov, Gjurgjica ^a   Corballis, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOTYPE; GRAY MATTER; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; LANGUAGE; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SPEECH; TWIN DISCORDANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865491089     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00267     Document Type: Article

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