From monkeys to humans: What do we now know about brain homologies?

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 135-144

  Sereno, Martin I ^a   Tootell, Roger B H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TONOTOPY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; HAPLORHINI; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOLUTION; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 20544470207     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2005.03.014     Document Type: Review

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