Of rats and men: A reply to Skottun

Cortex

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 800-801

  Dhar, Monica ^a   Been, Pieter H ^b   Minderaa, Ruud B ^c   Althaus, Monika ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NOTE; RODENT; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; THEORY; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DYSLEXIA; GENICULATE BODIES; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77950338100     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2010.02.001     Document Type: Note

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