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- Title
Does the Complexity of the Task Influence Manual Laterality in De Brazza’s Monkeys ( Cercopithecus neglectus)?
- Authors
Schweitzer, Cécile; Bec, Philippe; Blois-Heulin, Catherine
- Abstract
We assessed the manual preferences of 12 De Brazza’s monkeys ( Cercopithecus neglectus) in spontaneous feeding situations and in two different coordinated bimanual tasks that were not visually guided. We recorded the hand used by each subject for 22 spontaneous activities, hand and digits use while extracting peanut butter from a hollow tube (tube task) and the hand used to extract candies from hanging plastic balls (ball task). Spontaneous activities revealed individual manual preferences but no population-level biases. For both experimental tasks, all subjects were lateralized in their hand use. We found a left bias at the group level for the tube task, but no group-level asymmetry for the ball task. Experimental tasks induced greater strength of laterality than did spontaneous activities. Although the size of our sample did not allow us to draw any conclusions concerning manual preference at the population level, this study stresses the importance of coordinated bimanual tasks to reveal manual laterality in non-human primates.
- Subjects
CERCOPITHECUS; DE Brazza's monkey; MONKEY behavior; ANIMAL behavior; ANIMAL feeding
- Publication
Ethology, 2007, Vol 113, Issue 10, p983
- ISSN
0179-1613
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01405.x