Sex and handedness effects on corpus callosum morphology in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1025-1032

  Dunham, Leslie A ^a   Hopkins, William D ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal gender; Corpus callosum; Handedness; Pan troglodytes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN SIZE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; GENDER; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAN TROGLODYTES; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 33750137470     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.120.5.1025     Document Type: Article

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