Perceptual and Motor Lateralization in Two Species of Baboons

Special Topics in Primatology

Volumn 5, Issue C, 2007, Pages 182-202

  Vauclair, Jacques ^a   Meguerditchian, Adrien ^a,b  

^a Research Center in Psychology of Cognition   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Baboons; handedness; mental rotation; perceptual asymmetries

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957789617     PISSN: 19368526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1936-8526(07)05007-5     Document Type: Review

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