Right-hemispheric superiority in split-brain monkeys for learning and remembering facial discriminations

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1048-1061

  Vermeire, Betty A ^a   Hamilton, Charles R ^b   Erdmann, Anne L ^b  

^a TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RHESUS MONKEY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031797973     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.112.5.1048     Document Type: Article

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