Correlations Between Hand Preference and Cortical Thickness in the Secondary Somatosensory (SII) Cortex of the Common Marmoset, Callithrix jacchus

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1343-1351

  Gorrie, Catherine A ^a   Waite, Phil M E ^a   Rogers, Lesley J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

lateral sulcus; laterality; sylvian fissure; tactile discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HANDEDNESS; HISTOLOGY; LANGUAGE; LATERAL SULCUS; MARMOSET; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CALLITHRIX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 57049101804     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013279     Document Type: Article

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