ReviewFrontiers in psychology2015
Forelimb preferences in human beings and other species: multiple models for testing hypotheses on lateralization.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Bipedalism and brain expansion explain human handedness.PLoS biology · 2026Pooled it
- Lateral bias in the domestic pig (Sus scrofa).Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Dominant eye-dependent lateralized behavior in the scale-eating cichlid fish, Perissodus microlepis.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Lateralised Behavioural Responses of Chickens to a Threatening Human and a Novel Environment Indicate Fearful Emotions.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Exploring Brain Size Asymmetry and Its Relationship with Predation Risk Among Chinese Anurans.Biology · 2025Article
- Handedness in Animals and Plants.Biology · 2024Article
- Motor-sensory biases are associated with cognitive and social abilities in humans.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- A deep phenotyping approach to assess the association of handedness, early life factors and mental health.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Behavioral laterality is correlated with problem-solving performance in a songbird.Animal cognition · 2023Article
- Does owner handedness influence paw preference in dogs?Animal cognition · 2023Article
- Visual Field Analysis: A reliable method to score left and right eye use using automated tracking.Behavior research methods · 2022Article
- Light-induced asymmetries in embryonic retinal gene expression are mediated by the vascular system and extracellular matrix.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The "right" side of sleeping: laterality in resting behaviour of Aldabra giant tortoises (Aldabrachelys gigantea).Animal cognition · 2022Article
- Experience-dependent learning of behavioral laterality in the scale-eating cichlid Perissodus microlepis occurs during the early developmental stage.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Evolutionary motor biases and cognition in children with and without autism.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Individual, but not population asymmetries, are modulated by social environment and genotype in Drosophila melanogaster.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- No evidence that footedness in pheasants influences cognitive performance in tasks assessing colour discrimination and spatial ability.Learning & behavior · 2020Article
- Learning is negatively associated with strength of left/right paw preference in wild grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis).Learning & behavior · 2020Article
- Sheep Quickstep while the Floor Rock and Rolls: Visuomotor Lateralization during Simulated Sea Travel.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2019Article
- Postural effect on manual laterality during grooming in northern white-cheeked gibbons (Zoological research · 2019Article
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Abstract
Functional preferences in the use of right/left forelimbs are not exclusively present in humans but have been widely documented in a variety of vertebrate and invertebrate species. A matter of debate is whether non-human species exhibit a degree and consistency of functional forelimb asymmetries comparable to human handedness. The comparison is made difficult by the variability in hand use in humans and the few comparable studies conducted on other species. In spite of this, interesting continuities appear in functions such as feeding, object manipulation and communicative gestures. Studies on invertebrates show how widespread forelimb preferences are among animals, and the importance of experience for the development of forelimb asymmetries. Vertebrate species have been extensively investigated to clarify the origins of forelimb functional asymmetries: comparative evidence shows that selective pressures for different functions have likely driven the evolution of human handedness. Evidence of a complex genetic architecture of human handedness is in line with the idea of multiple evolutionary origins of this trait.
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