Effects of caller characteristics on auditory laterality in an early primate (Microcebus murinus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Leliveld, Lisette M C ^a,b   Scheumann, Marina ^a   Zimmermann, Elke ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b CENTER FOR SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONSENSUS; FEMALE; HEAD; HEMISPHERE; MALE; MICROCEBUS MURINUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PROSIMIAN;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHEIROGALEIDAE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

MICROCEBUS MURINUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 77957325220     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009031     Document Type: Article

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