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Action planning in humans and chimpanzees but not in monkeys

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2004

Nobuyuki Kawai*
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Information Science, Chikusaku, Furocho, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japanwww.cog.human.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Abstract:

Studies with primates in sequence production tasks reveal that chimpanzees make action plans before initiating responses and making on-line adjustments to spatially exchanged stimuli, whereas such planning isn't evident in monkeys. Although planning may rely on phylogenetically newer regions in the inferior parietal lobe – along with the frontal lobes and basal ganglia – it dates back to as far as five million years ago.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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