Cortex
Volume 48, Issue 2 , Pages 133-143 , February 2012

Arcuate fasciculus variability and repetition: The left sometimes can be right

  • Marcelo L. Berthier

      Affiliations

    • Unit of Cognitive Neurology and Aphasia, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias (CIMES), University of Malaga, Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Unidad de Neurología Cognitiva y Afasia, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias, Universidad de Málaga, Campus Teatinos, C/Marques de Beccaria 3, 29010 Málaga, Spain.
    • ,
  • Matthew A. Lambon Ralph

      Affiliations

    • Neuroscience and Aphasia Research Unit (NARU), School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK
    • ,
  • Jesús Pujol

      Affiliations

    • Institut d’Alta Tecnologia-PRBB, CRC Corporació Sanitària, Barcelona, Spain
    • ,
  • Cristina Green

      Affiliations

    • Unit of Cognitive Neurology and Aphasia, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias (CIMES), University of Malaga, Spain

Received 13 December 2010 ,Revised 1 June 2011 ,Accepted 14 June 2011.

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