Handedness for Tool Use Correlates With Cerebellar Asymmetries in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 191-198

  Cantalupo, Claudio ^a,b   Freeman, Hani ^b   Rodes, William ^a   Hopkins, William ^b,c  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

cerebellum; chimpanzee; handedness; tool use; torque

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; CHIMPANZEE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIMATE; RIGHT HANDEDNESS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEREBELLUM; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 40749121177     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.122.1.191     Document Type: Article

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