Similar hand shaping in reaching-for-food (skilled reaching) in rats and humans provides evidence of homology in release, collection, and manipulation movements

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 153-161

  Sacrey, Lori Ann R ^a   Alaverdashvili, Mariam ^a   Whishaw, Ian Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Digit shaping; Digit shaping in rats and humans; Homology in digit shaping; Skilled reaching and homology; Skilled reaching for food in rat and human

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HAND GRIP; HAND MOVEMENT; HOMOPLASY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSIMIAN; RAT; RHESUS MONKEY; SKILL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FINGERS; FORELIMB; GALAGO; HAND; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; PAN PANISCUS; PITHECIIDAE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 67849084826     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.05.035     Document Type: Article

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