Neuroanatomical localization of the motor hand area with magnetic resonance imaging: The left hemisphere is larger in great apes

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1159-1164

  Hopkins, William D ^a,b   Pilcher, Dawn L ^b  

^a BERRY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BABOON; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GORILLA; HAND; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORANG UTAN; RIGHT HANDEDNESS;

ANIMALS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034807099     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.115.5.1159     Document Type: Article

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