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Nichola J Rice1, Eugene Tunik, Emily S Cross

  • 1HB 6162 Moore Hall, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA.

Brain Research
|September 25, 2007
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The anterior intraparietal sulcus (aIPS) plays a key role in grasping. This study shows that the left aIPS controls grasping with the right hand, and the right aIPS controls grasping with the left hand.

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