Baboons communicate with their right hand

被引：61
作者：
Meguerditchian, Adrien
Vauclair, Jacques
机构：
[1] Univ Aix Marseille 1, Dept Psychol, Res Ctr Psychol Cognit Language & Emot, F-13621 Aix En Provence, France
[2] CNRS, Ctr Primatol, F-13790 Rousset Sur Arc, France
来源：
BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH | 2006年 / 171卷 / 01期
关键词：
gestural communication; handedness; brain lateralisation; monkeys; baboons;
D O I：
10.1016/j.bbr.2006.03.018
中图分类号：
B84 [心理学]; C [社会科学总论]; Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号：
03 ; 0303 ; 030303 ; 04 ; 0402 ;
摘要：
Humans are mainly right-handed for many actions including gestures. This bias is strongly linked to a left cerebral hemispheric dominance for language functions. Whether similar lateralized systems for communicative behaviors are present in other animals is unclear. Here we report the first evidence of strong population-level right-handedness in 60 captive baboons for a species-specific communicative manual gesture. Our findings support the view that lateralization for language may have evolved from a gestural system of communication controlled by the left hemisphere. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码：170 / 174
页数：5
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