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The assessment and analysis of handedness: The Edinburgh inventory

R.C. Oldfield
- 01 Mar 1971 - 
- Vol. 9, Iss: 1, pp 97-113
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An inventory of 20 items with a set of instructions and response- and computational-conventions is proposed and the results obtained from a young adult population numbering some 1100 individuals are reported.
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This article is published in Neuropsychologia.The article was published on 1971-03-01. It has received 33268 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Population.

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The syntactic positive shift (sps) as an erp measure of syntactic processing

TL;DR: The pattern of responses to the different kinds of syntactic violations suggests that the SPS indicates the impossibility for the parser to assign the preferred structure to an incoming string of words, irrespective of the specific syntactic nature of this preferred structure.
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Localization of grasp representations in humans by PET: 1. Observation versus execution

TL;DR: For example, this paper found that grasp observation significantly activates the cortex of the middle temporal gyrus including that of the adjacent superior temporal sulcus and the caudal part of the left inferior frontal gyrus.
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Listening to Action-related Sentences Activates Fronto-parietal Motor Circuits

TL;DR: The results showed that listening to action-related sentences activates a left fronto-parieto-temporal network that includes the pars opercularis of the inferior frontal gyrus (Broca's area), as well as the inferior parietal lobule, the intraparietal sulcus, and the posterior middle temporal gyrus.
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Differential sensitivity of human visual cortex to faces, letterstrings, and textures: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

TL;DR: Different regions of ventral extrastriate cortex are specialized for processing the perceptual features of faces and letterstrings, and that these regions are intermediate between earlier processing in striate and peristriates cortex, and later lexical, semantic, and associative processing in downstream cortical regions.
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The binomial distribution of right, mixed and left-handedness

TL;DR: Right, mixed and left handers are found in binomial proportions in seven samples of varied subjects whose lateral preferences were ascertained by several methods.
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Handedness in musicians

TL;DR: In this article, the authors made an inquiry by means of a questionnaire which included a "handedness inventory" into the prevalence of left-handedness among musicians, and the difficulties, if any, which lefthanders experienced in acquiring executant skills.
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Cerebral Dominance and Its Relation To Psychological Function

Randolph K. Byers
- 01 Mar 1963 - 
TL;DR: It is true that a few cases of this disease are seen from time to time in Australia; but the patients have been immigrants infected in their country of Orkney in the Mediterranean area.
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