A comparative magnetic resonance imaging study of the anatomy, variability, and asymmetry of Broca's area in the human and chimpanzee brain

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 46, 2009, Pages 14607-14616

  Keller, Simon S ^a,b   Roberts, Neil ^c   Hopkins, William ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; BROCA AREA; CHIMPANZEE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PAN TROGLODYTES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70949094535     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2892-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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