Handedness in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) is associated with asymmetries of the primary motor cortex but not with homologous language areas

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1176-1183

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

^a BERRY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HANDEDNESS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIMATE; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TASTE PREFERENCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; PAN TROGLODYTES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEX FACTORS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 9644254409     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.118.6.1176     Document Type: Article

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