Laterality of tail resting posture in three species of New World primates

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1040-1046

  Laska, Matthias ^a   Tutsch, Mirjam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alouatta palliata; Ateles geoffroyi; Cerebral functional asymmetry; Comparative; Lateralization; Saimiri sciureus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SQUIRREL MONKEY; TAIL;

ALOUATTA; ANIMALS; CEBIDAE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; POSTURE; SAIMIRI; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TAIL;

EID: 0034127634     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(99)00147-5     Document Type: Article

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