Colateralization of Broca's area and the visual word form area in left-handers: FMRI evidence

Brain and Language

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 171-178

  Van der Haegen, Lise ^a   Cai, Qing ^a,b   Brysbaert, Marc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b INSERM U992 Neurospin ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Broca's area; Cerebral lateralization; FMRI; Reading; Speech; Ventral occipito temporal (vOT) activity; Visual word form area (VWFA)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARS OPERCULARIS; PARS TRIANGULARIS; READING; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTRAL OCCIPITOTEMPORAL CORTEX;

BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; READING; SPEECH;

EID: 84865544694     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.11.004     Document Type: Article

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