?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Posture+and+laterality+in+human+and+nonhuman+primates%3A+Asymmetries+in+maternal+handling+and+infant's+early+motor+asymmetries&rft.creator=Damerose%2C+E&rft.creator=Vauclair%2C+J&rft.subject=Behavioral+Neuroscience&rft.description=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%2C+we%0Aare+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%0Aorder+to+understand+fully+the+many+ways+in+which+these+variables+could+interact%2C+we+first+review+the+evidence+of+postural+biases+in+human+adults+when+cradling+and+carrying+their+offspring.+Next%2C+we+examine+the+divergent%0Ahypotheses+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%2C+nipple+preference%2C+etc.+in+both+human%0Aand+non-human+primates.%0AIn+a+third+part+...%0A&rft.publisher=Cambridge%2C+UK%3A+Cambridge+University+Press&rft.contributor=Rogers%2C+L+J&rft.contributor=Andrews%2C+M&rft.date=2002&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3602%2F1%2FDameroseVauclair02.pdf&rft.identifier=++Damerose%2C+E+and+Vauclair%2C+J++(2002)+Posture+and+laterality+in+human+and+nonhuman+primates%3A+Asymmetries+in+maternal+handling+and+infant's+early+motor+asymmetries.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3602%2F