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Lesion damage of the anterior midline hemisphere in M. mulatta results in impaired discriminative vocal activity. Destruction of the supplementary motor area (SMA) or pre-SMA greatly increases vocal response latency without similar changes in a non-vocal response. Discrimination and efficiency in performing the vocal and non-vocal responses are unaffected by this damage. The behavioral deficit reflects a specific loss in initiating vocal signals.
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Sutton, D., Trachy, R.E. & Lindeman, R.C. Discriminative phonation in macaques: effects of anterior mesial cortex damage. Exp Brain Res 59, 410–413 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00230922
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