Research Catalog

Title

Primate laterality : current behavioral evidence of primate asymmetries / Jeanette P. Ward, William D. Hopkins, editors.

Publication

New York : Springer-Verlag, [1993], ©1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ward, Jeannette P.
• Hopkins, William D.

Description

xii, 356 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Recent research in psychology

Uniform Title

Recent research in psychology.

Subject

• Laterality
• Left- and right-handedness
• Primates > Behavior
• Dominance, Cerebral > physiology
• Functional Laterality > physiology
• Primates > physiology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Frontispiece / Charles Alexander -- 1. Handedness in Apes and Monkeys: Some Views From the Past / Lauren Julius Harris -- 2. Patterns of Lateralized Behavior in Prosimians / Jeannette P. Ward, Garrett W. Milliken and Donna K. Stafford -- 3. An Exploration of Manual Preference and Performance in Crabeating Macaques / Dorothy M. Fragaszy and Leah E. Adams-Curtis -- 4. Manual Preference in Varieties of Reaching in Squirrel Monkeys / James E. King and Virginia I. Landau -- 5. Cerebral Asymmetry, Interhemispheric Interaction and Handedness: Second Thoughts About Comparative Laterality Research With Nonhuman Primates, About a Theory and Some Preliminary Results / Bruno Preilowski -- 6. Manual Preference in Prosimians, Monkeys and Apes / Ralph A. W. Lehman -- 7. Lateralized Hand Use in the Precultural Behavior of the Koshima Monkeys (Macaca fuscata) / Kunio Watanabe and Masac Kawai -- 8. Manual Specialization in Gorillas and Baboons / Jacques Vauclair and Joel Fagot.
• 9. Behavioral Lateralization in Language-Trained Chimpanzees / Robin D. Morris, William D. Hopkins, Linda Bolser Gilmore and David A. Washburn -- 10. Ontogeny of Object Manipulation and Manual Lateralization in the Guinea Baboon: Preliminary Observations / Joel Fagot -- 11. The Ontogeny of Lateralized Behavior in Nonhuman Primates With Special Reference to Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) / William D. Hopkins and Kim A. Bard -- 12. Patterns of Handedness: Comparative Study of Nursery School Children and Captive Gorillas / Dulce D. Shafer -- 13. Hand Preference for Visually-Guided Reaching in Human Infants and Adults / Lauren Julius Harris and Douglas F. Carlson -- 14. Rotational Behavior in Children and Adults / Stanley D. Glick -- 15. Implications of Primate Functional Asymmetries for the Evolution of Cerebral Hemispheric Specialization / Peter F. MacNeilage.

ISBN

• 0387979611
• 3540979611
• 038797962X
• 354097962X

LCCN

92484856

OCLC

ocm26855208

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries