Behavioral and neuroanatomical correlates of white matter asymmetries in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2565-2570

  Hopkins, William D ^a,b   Taglialatela, Jared P ^a   Dunham, Leslie ^a   Pierre, Peter ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain asymmetry; Handedness; Non human primates; White matter

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN CORTEX; CHIMPANZEE; CINGULATE GYRUS; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; POPULATION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 34247178670     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05502.x     Document Type: Article

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