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The evolution of hemispheric specialization in primates

Title
The evolution of hemispheric specialization in primates / edited by William D. Hopkins.
Publication
London, UK ; Burlington, MA : Academic Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Hopkins, William D.
  • American Society of Primatologists.
Description
xiii, 298 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Special topics in primatology, 1936-8526 ; v. 5
Uniform Title
Special topics in primatology ; v. 5.
Subject
  • Laterality
  • Left- and right-handedness
  • Primates > Behavior
  • Primates > Psychology
  • Dominance, Cerebral > physiology
  • Functional Laterality > physiology
  • Primates > physiology
Note
  • "Published on behalf of the American Society of Primatologists"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Preface / William D. Hopkins -- Cerebral asymmetry and human uniqueness / Michael C. Corballis -- Lateralization in its many forms, and its evolution and development / Lesley J. Rogers -- Present status of the postural origins theory / Peter F. MacNeilage -- Microstructural asymmetries of the cerebral cortex in humans and other mammals / Natalie M. Schenker ... [et al.] -- Functional and structural asymmetries for auditory perception and vocal production in nonhuman primates / Jared P. Taglialatela -- Handedness and neuroanatomical asymmetries in captive chimpanzees : a summary of 15 years of research / William D. Hopkins, ... [et al.] -- Perceptual and motor lateralization in two species of baboons / Jacques Vauclair and Adrien Meguerditchian -- Factors affecting manual laterality in tufted capuchins (Cebus apella) / Giovanna Spinozzi -- Prosimian primates as models of laterality / Sheree L. Watson and David B. Hanbury -- The biological correlates of hand preference in rhesus macaques / Sue Howell, J. Dee Higley and Gregory C. Westergaard.
ISBN
  • 9780123741974
  • 0123741971
OCLC
  • ocn166367548
  • 166367548
  • SCSB-5404884
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries