Hand preference for spontaneously unimanual and bimanual coordinated tasks in wild Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys: Implication for hemispheric specialization

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 85-89

  Zhao, Dapeng ^a   Gao, Xiang ^a   Li, Baoguo ^a  

^a NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bimanual coordination; Grooming; Handedness; Postural origin hypothesis; Rhinopithecus roxellana; Sichuan snub nosed monkey; Task complexity

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROOMING; HANDEDNESS; HAPLORHINI; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; NONHUMAN; POSTURAL ORIGIN HYPOTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINOPITHECUS ROXELLANA; TASK COMPLEXITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WILD SPECIES; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CERCOPITHECIDAE; HAND; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CERCOPITHECIDAE; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; GROOMING; HAND; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 77951920453     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.11.011     Document Type: Article

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