Relationships between hand laterality and verbal and spatial skills in 436 healthy adults balanced for handedness

Laterality

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 383-404

  Mellet, E ^a,b,c   Jobard, G ^a,b,c   Zago, L ^a,b,c   Crivello, F ^a,b,c   Petit, L ^a,b,c   Joliot, M ^a,b,c   Mazoyer, B ^a,b,c   Tzourio Mazoyer, N ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b Groupe d'Imagerie Neurofonctionnelle   (France)

^c DIF   (France)

Author keywords

Familial sinistrality; Handedness; Manual preference strength; Spatial ability; Verbal ability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HAND; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897657811     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: 14640678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2013.796965     Document Type: Article

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