Mental rotation of primate hands: Human-likeness and thumb saliency

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 93-105

  Bläsing, Bettina ^a   De Castro Campos, Marcella ^a   Schack, Thomas ^a   Brugger, Peter ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Handedness; Mental rotation; Primate hands; Thumb

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOBINAE; FEMALE; HAND; HAND MOVEMENT; HANDEDNESS; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL ROTATION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SPECIES; TASK PERFORMANCE; THUMB;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); ROTATION; SAIMIRI; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; THUMB; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864286249     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3151-3     Document Type: Article

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