Shared Brain Lateralization Patterns in Language and Acheulean Stone Tool Production: A Functional Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Uomini, Natalie Thaïs ^a   Meyer, Georg Friedrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACHEULEAN STONE TOOL MAKING; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CUED WORD GENERATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PLANNING; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CUES; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883337278     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072693     Document Type: Article

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