Corpus Callosum Maturation and Line Bisection Performance in Healthy Children

Brain Imaging and Behavior

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 307-316

  Pulsipher, Dalin T ^a   Seidenberg, Michael ^a   Hermann, Bruce P ^b  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Line bisection; MRI; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866552538     PISSN: 19317557     EISSN: 19317565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11682-009-9073-4     Document Type: Article

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