Planum parietale of chimpanzees and orangutans: A comparative resonance of human-like planum temporale asymmetry

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 287, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1128-1141

  Gannon, Patrick J ^a   Kheck, Nancy M ^a   Braun, Allen R ^b   Holloway, Ralph L ^c  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain language areas; Comparative neurobiology; Dyslexia; Evolution; Great apes; Polymodal language; Primates

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN TISSUE; CHIMPANZEE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DYSLEXIA; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORANG UTAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; HOMINIDAE; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PARIETAL LOBE; PONGO PYGMAEUS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ANIMALIA; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES; SYLVIA;

EID: 27644569382     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20256     Document Type: Conference Paper

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