Manual laterality for simple reaching and bimanual coordinated task in naturalistic housed Pan troglodytes

International Journal of Primatology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 183-197

  Llorente, Miquel ^a,b,c   Mosquera, Marina ^a,d   Fabré, Miquel ^c  

^a INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^b Unitat de Recerca I Laboratori d'Etologia   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT RAMON LLULL   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Complex task; Hand preference; Naturalistic housed; Pan troglodytes; Replication; Simple task

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE POPULATION; DOMINANCE; HANDEDNESS; HOMINID;

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 59849088156     PISSN: 01640291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10764-009-9338-1     Document Type: Article

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