The association between handedness, brain asymmetries, and corpus callosum size in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1757-1765

  Hopkins, William D ^a,b   Dunham, Leslie ^b   Cantalupo, Claudio ^c   Taglialatela, Jared ^b  

^a AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain asymmetry; Chimpanzees; Corpus callosum; Handedness

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CADAVER; CHIMPANZEE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GESTURES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 34247255712     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl086     Document Type: Article

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