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12034131

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-5-29
pubmed:abstractText
A review of the research on anatomical and functional asymmetries in human primary motor cortex suggests that the area of hand representation is greater in the dominant than in the non-dominant hemisphere and that there is a greater dispersion of elementary movement representations with more profuse horizontal connections between them. The more profuse interconnections in motor cortex (M1) of the dominant hemisphere might form a neural substrate which favors the formation of experience-dependent excitatory and inhibitory interactions between elementary movement representations. Motor practice might lead to more precise spatiotemporal coordination of the activity of the elementary movement representations in M1 of the dominant than that of the non-dominant hemisphere, thus leading to more dexterous behavior of the dominant than that of the non-dominant hand.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0149-7634
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
26
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
285-92
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Correlates of human handedness in primary motor cortex: a review and hypothesis.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychology, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Nedlands, WA 6907, Australia. geoff@psy.uwa.edu.au
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review