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Evaluation of Hemisphere Lateralization with Bilateral Local Field Potential Recording in Secondary Motor Cortex of Mice
Published on: July 31, 2019
Lateralization of the vertebrate brain: taking the side of model systems
Marnie E Halpern1, Onur Güntürkün, William D Hopkins
1Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA. halpern@ciwemb.edu
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