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Human Infants and Baboons Show the Same Pattern of Handedness for a Communicative Gesture

To test the role of gestures in the origin of language, we studied hand preferences for grasping or pointing to objects at several spatial positions in human infants and adult baboons. If the roots of language are indeed in gestural communication, we expect that human infants and baboons will presen...

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Autores principales: Meunier, Helene, Vauclair, Jacques, Fagard, Jacqueline
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3309962/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22470500
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033959