Different association between intentionality competence and prefrontal volume in left- and right-handers

Cortex

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 63-76

  Powell, Joanne L ^a,b   Kemp, Graham J ^a   Dunbar, Robin I M ^c   Roberts, Neil ^d   Sluming, Vanessa ^a   García Fiñana, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Handedness; Intentionality; Prefrontal cortex; Stereology; Theory of Mind

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEUROANATOMY; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; STEREOMETRY; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THEORY OF MIND; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN MAPPING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; THEORY OF MIND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896502680     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.02.010     Document Type: Article

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