Motor skill for tool-use is associated with asymmetries in Broca’s area and the motor hand area of the precentral gyrus in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

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• 作者：Dr. William D. Hopkins^a ; ^b ; ^{whopkins4@gsu.edu} ; ^{whopkin@emory.edu} ; Adrien Meguerditchian^c ; Olivier Coulon^d ; Maria Misiura^a ; Sarah Pope^a ; Mary Catherine Mareno^e ; Steven J. Schapiro^e
• 关键词：Tool use ; Handedness ; Hand skill ; Pli-de-passage ; Broca's area ; Chimpanzee
• 刊名：Behavioural Brain Research
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：1 February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：318
• 期：Complete
• 页码：71-81
• 全文大小：2009 K
• 卷排序：318

文摘

Chimpanzee hand preference is only moderately associated with hand skill. Individual difference in hand skill are associated with asymmetry in premotor and primary cortex. Hand preference for tool use was not associated with anatomical asymmetries. Females show increased motor skill for the right hand compared to males.