Lateralization of the vertebrate brain: Taking the side of model systems

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 45, 2005, Pages 10351-10357

  Halpern, Marnie E ^a,f   Güntürkün, Onur ^b   Hopkins, William D ^c,d   Rogers, Lesley J ^e  

^a Carnegie Institution of Washington   (United States)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c BERRY COLLEGE   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^f GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIENCEPHALON; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATE; VISION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; VISION;

EID: 27744518323     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3439-05.2005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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