| Literature DB >> 21926985 |
Michel Thiebaut de Schotten1, Flavio Dell'Acqua, Stephanie J Forkel, Andrew Simmons, Francesco Vergani, Declan G M Murphy, Marco Catani.
Abstract
Right hemisphere dominance for visuospatial attention is characteristic of most humans, but its anatomical basis remains unknown. We report the first evidence in humans for a larger parieto-frontal network in the right than left hemisphere, and a significant correlation between the degree of anatomical lateralization and asymmetry of performance on visuospatial tasks. Our results suggest that hemispheric specialization is associated with an unbalanced speed of visuospatial processing.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21926985 DOI: 10.1038/nn.2905
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Neurosci ISSN: 1097-6256 Impact factor: 24.884