Baseline cortisol levels and social behavior differ as a function of handedness in marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)

• Published in: American journal of primatology Vol. 81; no. 9; pp. e23057 - n/a
• Main Authors: Vaughan, Emma, Le, Annie, Casey, Michaela, Workman, Kathryn P., Lacreuse, Agnès
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.09.2019
• Subjects: Behavior change; Callithrix jacchus; cognition; Cognitive ability; Cognitive flexibility; Cognitive tasks; Correlation; Cortisol; Females; hand preference; Handedness; Hormones; laterality; Learning; Males; Monkeys; Monkeys & apes; Preferences; primate; Primates; Reactivity; Reversal; Reversal learning; Separation; Sex differences; Social behavior; Social factors; Social interaction; Social interactions; stress; Urinary cortisol; primate; stress; cognition; hand preference; laterality

Population hand preferences are rare in nonhuman primates, but individual hand preferences are consistent over a lifetime and considered to reflect an individual's preference to use a particular hemisphere when engaged in a specific task. Previous findings in marmosets have indicated that left‐...