Asymmetries in cerebral width in nonhuman primate brains as revealed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 493-499

  Hopkins, William D ^a,b   Marino, Lori ^b  

^a BERRY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MONKEY; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEBIDAE; CERCOPITHECIDAE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HOMINIDAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIMATES;

EID: 0033970223     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(99)00090-1     Document Type: Article

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