The ontogenesis of language lateralization and its relation to handedness

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 43, Issue , 2014, Pages 191-198

  Ocklenburg, Sebastian ^a   Beste, Christian ^b   Arning, Larissa ^c   Peterburs, Jutta ^d   Güntürkün, Onur ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional Hemispheric asymmetries; Laterality; Lateralization; Ontogenesis; Speech

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP2;

AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; FOXP2 GENE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GESTURE; GRIN2B GENE; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; IGFBP5 GENE; LAMR1 GENE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LMO4 GENE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PERCEPTION; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPG11 GENE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WHITE MATTER; ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HEARING; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; SPEECH;

EID: 84899891942     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.04.008     Document Type: Review

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