The cerebellum and its contribution to complex tasks in higher primates: A comparative perspective

Cortex

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 821-830

  Cantalupo, Claudio ^a,c   Hopkins, William ^b,c  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Chimpanzees; Handedness; Language; Tool use

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HANDEDNESS; MALE; MONKEY; MOTOR CONTROL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PRIMATE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUMETRY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEREBELLUM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY, COMPARATIVE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 77952881700     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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