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Hand Function and the Neocortex
. Ed(S): Goodwin, A. W.; Darian-Smith, I.
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Paperback. Summary of a Satellite Meeting of the 29th Congress of the International Union of Physiological Sciences, Held in Melbourne, August 24-26, 1983 Editor(s): Goodwin, A. W.; Darian-Smith, I. Series: Experimental Brain Research Series. Num Pages: 316 pages, 27 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: MJN; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 18. Weight in Grams: 574.
To watch a curious young macaque explore and manipulate his immediate surroundings must surely delight and amaze us all. The monkey selects a particular objectfor scrutiny, reaches out and grasps it, handles it delicately with the fingers or more forcibly with the hand, scans the various surfaces with the fin ger pads, and finally identifies it. If we compare this monkey's adroitness and discriminative capacities with our own, at once we have a concise statement of important biological similarities and differences among primates. While there are species diffe rences in the functional anatomy of the hand, in tactile sensibi lity, ... Read more
To watch a curious young macaque explore and manipulate his immediate surroundings must surely delight and amaze us all. The monkey selects a particular objectfor scrutiny, reaches out and grasps it, handles it delicately with the fingers or more forcibly with the hand, scans the various surfaces with the fin ger pads, and finally identifies it. If we compare this monkey's adroitness and discriminative capacities with our own, at once we have a concise statement of important biological similarities and differences among primates. While there are species diffe rences in the functional anatomy of the hand, in tactile sensibi lity, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
Series
Experimental Brain Research Series
Number of Pages
316
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642701078
SKU
V9783642701078
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