Left Brain, Right Brain: Facts and Fantasies

PLoS Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Corballis, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DYSLEXIA; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; LANGUAGE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SPEECH;

EID: 84893790318     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001767     Document Type: Article

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