Hand preference, performance abilities, and hand selection in children

SM Scharoun, PJ Bryden - Frontiers in psychology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
It is widely know that the pattern of human handedness is such that approximately 90% of
the population is right handed with the remainder being left handed, at least in the adult …

Cognitive benefits of right-handedness: a meta-analysis

M Somers, LS Shields, MP Boks, RS Kahn… - Neuroscience & …, 2015 - Elsevier
Hand preference–which is related to cerebral dominance–is thought to be associated with
cognitive skills; however, findings on this association are inconsistent and there is no …

Configural face processing develops more slowly than featural face processing

CJ Mondloch, R Le Grand, D Maurer - Perception, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com
Expertise in face processing takes many years to develop. To determine the contribution of
different face-processing skills to this slow development, we altered a single face so as to …

Recognition of emotional prosody and verbal components of spoken language: an fMRI study

TW Buchanan, K Lutz, S Mirzazade, K Specht… - Cognitive Brain …, 2000 - Elsevier
This study examined the neural areas involved in the recognition of both emotional prosody
and phonemic components of words expressed in spoken language using echo-planar …

Cortical activations during the mental rotation of different visual objects

K Jordan, HJ Heinze, K Lutz, M Kanowski, L Jäncke - Neuroimage, 2001 - Elsevier
Whole-head functional magnetic resonance imaging was applied to nine healthy right-
handed subjects while they were performing three different mental rotation tasks and two …

Brain size and grey matter volume in the healthy human brain

E Lüders, H Steinmetz, L Jäncke - Neuroreport, 2002 - journals.lww.com
Magnetic resonance imaging was used to evaluate the influence of sex and brain size on
compartmental brain volumes (grey matter, white matter, CSF) in a large and well-matched …

Cortical activations in primary and secondary motor areas for complex bimanual movements in professional pianists

L Jäncke, NJ Shah, M Peters - Cognitive Brain Research, 2000 - Elsevier
Hemodynamic responses were measured applying functional magnetic resonance imaging
in two professional piano players and two carefully matched non-musician control subjects …

Cortical activations during paced finger-tapping applying visual and auditory pacing stimuli

L Jäncke, R Loose, K Lutz, K Specht, NJ Shah - Cognitive Brain Research, 2000 - Elsevier
In order to study neural systems which are involved in motor timing we used whole-brain
functional resonance imaging while subjects performed a paced finger-tapping task (PFT) …

Phonetic perception and the temporal cortex

L Jäncke, T Wüstenberg, H Scheich, HJ Heinze - Neuroimage, 2002 - Elsevier
Recent functional neuroimaging studies have emphasized the role of the different areas
within the left superior temporal sulcus (STS) for the perception of various speech stimuli …

Finger length and distal finger extent patterns in humans

M Peters, K Mackenzie, P Bryden - American Journal of …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The fingers in the adult human hand differ in length and in distal extent. The literature agrees
that in the clear majority of males, the distal extent of the ring finger tends to be relatively …