Visuospatial reaching preferences of common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus): an assessment of individual biases across a variety of tasks

• Published in: Journal of comparative psychology (1983) Vol. 122; no. 1; p. 41
• Main Authors: Hook, Michelle A, Rogers, Lesley J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.02.2008
• Subjects: Animals; Behavior, Animal; Callithrix; Choice Behavior; Functional Laterality; Hand Strength; Space Perception; Videotape Recording; Visual Perception

Using multiple measures of hand preference, the authors investigated lateralization at an individual level in 21 common marmosets. Despite showing group biases for sensory and communication functions, these same marmosets did not show a group bias in direction of lateralized hand use. Hand preferenc...