Language and hand preference in early development
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Hand preference and sex shape the architecture of language networks.
In right-handed subjects, language processing relies predominantly on left hemisphere networks, more so in men than in women, and in right- versus left-handers. Using DT-MRI tractography, we have shown that right-handed men are massively interconnected between the left-hemisphere language areas, whereas the homologous in the right hemisphere are sparse; interhemispheric connections between the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Developmental Neuropsychology
سال: 1986
ISSN: 8756-5641,1532-6942
DOI: 10.1080/87565648609540323