Cortex
Volume 46, Issue 5 , Pages 700-702 , May 2010

Precisely wrong? The problems with the Jones and Martin genetic model of sex differences in handedness and language lateralisation

  • I. Christopher McManus

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationResearch Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.

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PII: S0010-9452(09)00252-4

doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.08.008

Cortex
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