Neuroscience Institute and Language Research Center, Georgia State University, P.O. Box 5030, Atlanta, GA, 30302-5030, USA.
Dev Psychobiol. 2013 Sep;55(6):621-36. doi: 10.1002/dev.21139. Epub 2013 Aug 1.
In the past 20-25 years, there have been a number of studies published on handedness in nonhuman primates. The goal of these studies has been to evaluate whether monkeys and apes show patterns of hand preference that resemble the right-handedness found in the human species. The extant findings on handedness in nonhuman primates have revealed inconsistent evidence for population-level handedness within and between species. In this article, I discuss some of the methodological and statistical challenges to comparative studies of handedness in human and nonhuman primates. I further offer a framework for developing some consensus on evaluating the validity of different handedness measures and the characterization of individual hand preferences.
在过去的 20-25 年中,已经有许多关于非人类灵长类动物用手习惯的研究发表。这些研究的目的是评估猴子和猿类是否表现出类似于人类的惯用手偏好模式。关于非人类灵长类动物用手习惯的现有发现表明,在物种内和物种间的群体水平上,用手习惯的证据不一致。在本文中,我讨论了比较人类和非人类灵长类动物用手习惯的比较研究中存在的一些方法学和统计学挑战。我进一步提出了一个框架,用于就评估不同用手习惯度量的有效性和个体用手偏好的特征达成一些共识。