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An association between hand preference and tactile discrimination performance in the rhesus monkey

1985; Elsevier BV; Volume: 23; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/0028-3932(85)90027-2

1873-3514

Wolfgang Hörster, G. Ettlinger,

Action Observation and Synchronization

Seventy-eight rhesus monkeys spontaneously using the left hand learnt a tactile discrimination task in significantly fewer trials than 77 monkeys using the right hand; but 82 monkeys without consistent preferences learnt significantly faster than either group with consistent preferences.