Looking for the lunate sulcus: A magnetic resonance imaging study in modern humans

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

Volumn 288, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 867-876

  Allen, John S ^a   Bruss, Joel ^b   Damasio, Hanna ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Endocast; Evolution; Occipital lobe; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

HOMINIDAE;

EID: 33747091311     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: 15524892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20362     Document Type: Article

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