creators_name: Damerose, E
creators_name: Vauclair, J
editors_name: Rogers, L J
editors_name: Andrews, M
type: bookchapter
datestamp: 2004-04-30
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:32
metadata_visibility: show
title: Posture and laterality in human and nonhuman primates: Asymmetries in maternal handling and infant's early motor asymmetries
ispublished: pub
subjects: behav-neuro-sci
full_text_status: public
keywords: cradling, infant holding, maternal behavior, motor asymmetries, cerebral lateralization
abstract: This chapter is concerned with the question of the relations and possible influences of environmental factors on the establishment of patterns of manual lateralization in human and non-human primates. More specifically, we
are interested in the relation between maternal postures and laterality in nonhuman primates (e.g. bias in cradling behaviour and hand preference of the mother) and the development of patterns of manual preferences in infants. In
order to understand fully the many ways in which these variables could interact, we first review the evidence of postural biases in human adults when cradling and carrying their offspring. Next, we examine the divergent
hypotheses advanced to explain the observed biases. The same is then done for non-human primates. A second part of our chapter describes the different asymmetric patterns observed during the development of the infant concerning head turning, nipple preference, etc. in both human
and non-human primates.
In a third part ...

date: 2002
date_type: published
publication: Comparative Vertebrate Lateralization
publisher: Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
pagerange: 306-362
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Damerose, E and Vauclair, J  (2002) Posture and laterality in human and nonhuman primates: Asymmetries in maternal handling and infant's early motor asymmetries.  [Book Chapter]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/3602/1/DameroseVauclair02.pdf