Planum temporale asymmetries correlate with corpus callosum axon fiber density in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 234, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 248-254

  Hopkins, William D ^a,b   Pilger, John F ^c   Storz, Rachel ^c   Ambrose, Alex ^c   Hof, Patrick R ^d,e   Sherwood, Chet C ^f  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE   (United States)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

^f GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon fiber density; Brain asymmetry; Chimpanzees; Corpus callosum; Planum temporale

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN TISSUE; CADAVER; CELL DENSITY; CELL SIZE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MICROMORPHOLOGY; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PLANUM TEMPORALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEX FACTORS; TEMAZEPAM;

EID: 84864048382     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.06.030     Document Type: Article

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