A new tool for measuring hand preference in non-human primates: Adaptation of Bishop's Quantifying Hand Preference task for Olive baboons

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-7

  Meunier, Hélène ^a,b   Blois Heulin, Catherine ^c   Vauclair, Jacques ^a  

^a University of Provence Aix Marseille University   (France)

^b Center of Primatology   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Hand preference; Hemispheric specialisation; Laterality; Non human primates; Papio anubis; QHP task; Simple reaching

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PAPIO ANUBIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTIFYING HAND PREFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARDIZATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; MALE; MOVEMENT; PAPIO ANUBIS; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 78649793945     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.11.011     Document Type: Article

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