Hemispheric asymmetries of cortical volume in the human brain

Cortex

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 200-210

  Goldberg, Elkhonon ^a   Roediger, Donovan ^a   Kucukboyaci, N Erkut ^a,b   Carlson, Chad ^a   Devinsky, Orrin ^a   Kuzniecky, Ruben ^a   Halgren, Eric ^b   Thesen, Thomas ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical asymmetry; Hemispheric specialization; MRI morphometry; Parietal cortex; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; CINGULATE GYRUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 84872165397     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2011.11.002     Document Type: Article

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