Handedness is associated with asymmetries in gyrification of the cerebral cortex of chimpanzees

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1750-1756

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

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE   (United States)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Chimpanzees; Gyrification; Handedness

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CADAVER; CHIMPANZEE; FEMALE; GESTURE; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE;

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

EID: 34547668749     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl085     Document Type: Article

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