Methodology of motor skill and laterality: New test of hand preference in Macaca nemestrina

Cortex

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 693-705

  Rigamonti, Marco M ^a,c   Previde, Emanuela Prato ^a   Poli, Marco D ^a   Marchant, Linda F ^b   McGrew, William C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Behavioural lateralization; Handedness; Manual preference; Nonhuman primates; Pig tailed macaque

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ERROR; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; INDEX FINGER; MACACA; METHODOLOGY; MONKEY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; THUMB; TIME; VELOCITY;

EID: 0032425998     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70773-1     Document Type: Article

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