Are planum temporale and sylvian fissure asymmetries directly related? A MRI study in great apes

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 41, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1975-1981

  Cantalupo, Claudio ^a,b   Pilcher, Dawn L ^b   Hopkins, William D ^a,b,c  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BERRY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Great apes; Inferior parietal lobe; Neuroanatomical asymmetry; Planum temporale; Sylvian fissure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; LATERAL SULCUS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLANUM TEMPORALE;

EID: 0142122593     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(02)00288-9     Document Type: Article

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