Baby baboon brain anatomy predicts which hand they will use to communicate

Baby baboon brain anatomy predicts which hand they will use to communicate

By studying the brain anatomy of newborn baby baboons, a research group including several CNRS scientists1 was able to predict what hand they would use to communicate after they had been weaned. These researchers had already found that nearly 70% of newborn baboons, like human babies, had early asymmetry in the planum temporale(PT)area of the … Read more