Increased cortical thickness and altered functional connectivity of the right superior temporal gyrus in left-handers

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 67, Issue , 2015, Pages 27-34

  Li, Meiling ^a   Chen, Heng ^a   Wang, Junping ^b   Liu, Feng ^a   Wang, Yifeng ^a   Lu, Fengmei ^a   Yu, Chunshui ^b   Chen, Huafu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cortical thickness; Functional connectivity; Language; Left handers; Superior temporal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; RESTING STATE NETWORK; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LANGUAGE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84917684346     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.11.033     Document Type: Article

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