Visualizing vocal perception in the chimpanzee brain

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1151-1157

  Taglialatela, Jared P ^a,b   Russell, Jamie L ^b   Schaeffer, Jennifer A ^b   Hopkins, William D ^b,c  

^a CLAYTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ape communication; Language evolution; Positron emission tomography; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHIMPANZEE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HEMISPHERE; INFORMATION; MACACA; MALE; MONKEY; NEUROLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; AUDITORY CORTEX; EVOLUTION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LANGUAGE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; LANGUAGE; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 67649173025     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn157     Document Type: Article

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