(1) Sanz, C. M., Morgan, D. B., & Hopkins, W. D. (2016). Lateralization and performance asymmetries in termite fishing of wild chimpanzees in the Goualougo Triangle, Republic of Congo. American Journal of Primatology, 11, 1190-1200.
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(2) Meguerditchian, A., Phillips, K.A., Chapelain, A., Mahovetz, L., Milne, S., Stoinski, T., Bania, A., Lonsdorf, E. Schaeffer, J., Russell, J., L. Hopkins, W.D. (2015). Hand preference for unimanual grasping in 562 great apes: Evidence of right-handedness for fine precision grip. Frontiers in Cognition, 6, 1794.
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(3) Hopkins, W. D., Meguerditchian, A., Coulon, A., Bogart, S., Mangin, J.F., Sherwood, C.S., Grabowski, M.W., Bennett, A. J., Pierre, PJ., Fears, S., Woods, R., Hof, P. R., & Vauclair, J. (2014). Evolution of central sulcus morphology in primates. Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 84, 19-30.
(1) Hecht, E.E., Mahovetz, L. M., Preuss, T. M., & Hopkins, W. D. (in press). A neuroanatomical predictor of mirror self-recognition in chimpanzees. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
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(2) Hopkins, W.D., Meguerditchian, A, Coulon, O., Misiura, M., Pope. S., Mareno, M.C., & Schapiro, S. J. (2017). Motor skill for tool-use is associated with asymmetries in Broca’s area and the motor hand area of the precentral gyrus in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Behavioural Brain Research, 318, 71-81.
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(3) Raghanti, M A., Edler, M., Stephenson, A., Wilson, L., Hopkins, W.D., Ely, J., Erwin, J., Jacobs, B., Hof, P., & Sherwood, C. (2016). Human-specific increase of dopaminergic innervation in a striatal region associated with speech and language: a comparative analysis of the primate basal ganglia. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 524(10), 2117-2129.
Hemispheric Specialization
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Comparative Cognition and Brain
-Joseph Rotblat -
“At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly.
PUBLICATIONS
Quantitative and Behavioral Genetics
(1) Hopkins, W. D., Russell, J. L, & Schaeffer, J. S. (2014). Chimpanzee intelligence is heritable. Current Biology, 24(14), 1640-1652.
(2) Hopkins, W. D., Coulon, O., Megurditchian, A., Autrey, M., Davidek, K., Mahovetz, L. M., Pope, S., Mareno, M. C., & Schapiro, S. J. (in press). Genetic factors and oro-facial motor learning selectively influence variability in central sulcus morphology in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Neuroscience.
(3) Gomez-Robles, A., Hopkins, W.D., Schapiro, S.J., & Hopkins, & Sherwood, C.C. (2015). Relaxed genetic control of cortical organization in human brains compared with chimpanzees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(48), 14799-14804.