Emergence of handedness in bonnet macaques (Macaca Radiata) on a task they were equally capable of performing with the left or right hand.
Seven bonnet macaques that exhibited no asymmetry in the accuracy or latency with which the right and left hands used a joystick to direct a cursor to a moving target nevertheless came to exhibit a strong hand preference in performing the task when allowed to use either hand.
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Department of Psychology, Southern Oregon University, Ashland 97520, USA. andrews@sou.edu
D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D008255:Macaca radiata / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D009048:Motor Skills / Q000502:physiology*; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis