Vervet monkeys and humans show brain asymmetries for processing conspecific vocalizations, but with opposite patterns of laterality

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1599, 2006, Pages 2313-2318

  Gil Da Costa, Ricardo ^a,b,c   Hauser, Marc D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain evolution; Communication; Functional asymmetry; Primate; Vocalizations

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CONSPECIFIC; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; NEUROLOGY; ONTOGENY; PRIMATE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TAXONOMY; VOCALIZATION;

CERCOPITHECIDAE; CERCOPITHECUS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; MACACA; PRIMATES;

EID: 33748648601     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3580     Document Type: Article

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