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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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Dysfunction of ventral striatal reward prediction in schizophrenic patients treated with typical, not atypical, neuroleptics

TL;DR: Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to assess the blood oxygen level dependency response in the ventral striatum of medicated schizophrenics and healthy control subjects during reward anticipation to reflect the improved efficacy of these drugs in treating negative symptoms.
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The Angular Gyrus Computes Action Awareness Representations

TL;DR: It is shown that right Ag is associated with both awareness of discrepancy between intended and movement consequences and awareness of action authorship, and it is proposed that this region is involved in higher-order aspects of motor control that allows one to consciously access different aspects of one's own actions.
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Dissociating the role of ventral and dorsal premotor cortex in precision grasping.

TL;DR: The first compelling evidence for a neuronal dissociation between the different phases of precision grasping in human premotor cortex is provided, in healthy subjects performing a grip–lift task with their right, dominant hand.
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When Language Meets Action: The Neural Integration of Gesture and Speech

TL;DR: Findings provide direct evidence that action and language processing share a high-level neural integration system.
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fMRI study of language lateralization in children and adults.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that language lateralization to the dominant hemisphere increases between the ages 5 and 20 years, plateaus between 20 and 25 years, and slowly decreases between 25 and 70 years.
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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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