Broca's area homologue in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Probabilistic mapping, asymmetry, and comparison to humans

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 730-742

  Schenker, Natalie M ^a   Hopkins, William D ^b,c   Spocter, Muhammad A ^a   Garrison, Amy R ^a   Stimpson, Cheryl D ^a   Erwin, Joseph M ^d,e   Hof, Patrick R ^f,g   Sherwood, Chet C ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA MARYLAND REGIONAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Foundation for Comparative and Conservation Biology   (United States)

^f MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g NEW YORK CONSORTIUM IN EVOLUTIONARY PRIMATOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytoarchitecture; Evolution; Great ape; Handedness; Stereology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NEURONS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 76749124863     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp138     Document Type: Article

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