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Liang F, Yu S, Pang S, Wang X, Jie J, Gao F, Song Z, Li B, Liao WH, Yin M. Non-human primate models and systems for gait and neurophysiological analysis. Front Neurosci 2023; 17:1141567. [PMID: 37188006 PMCID: PMC10175625 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1141567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2023] [Accepted: 04/11/2023] [Indexed: 05/17/2023] Open
Abstract
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have garnered extensive interest and become a groundbreaking technology to restore movement, tactile sense, and communication in patients. Prior to their use in human subjects, clinical BCIs require rigorous validation and verification (V&V). Non-human primates (NHPs) are often considered the ultimate and widely used animal model for neuroscience studies, including BCIs V&V, due to their proximity to humans. This literature review summarizes 94 NHP gait analysis studies until 1 June, 2022, including seven BCI-oriented studies. Due to technological limitations, most of these studies used wired neural recordings to access electrophysiological data. However, wireless neural recording systems for NHPs enabled neuroscience research in humans, and many on NHP locomotion, while posing numerous technical challenges, such as signal quality, data throughout, working distance, size, and power constraint, that have yet to be overcome. Besides neurological data, motion capture (MoCap) systems are usually required in BCI and gait studies to capture locomotion kinematics. However, current studies have exclusively relied on image processing-based MoCap systems, which have insufficient accuracy (error: ≥4° and 9 mm). While the role of the motor cortex during locomotion is still unclear and worth further exploration, future BCI and gait studies require simultaneous, high-speed, accurate neurophysiological, and movement measures. Therefore, the infrared MoCap system which has high accuracy and speed, together with a high spatiotemporal resolution neural recording system, may expand the scope and improve the quality of the motor and neurophysiological analysis in NHPs.
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- Fengyan Liang
- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering of Hainan Province, School of Biomedical Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou, China
- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Affiliated Haikou Hospital of Xiangya Medical College, Central South University, Haikou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering of Hainan Province, School of Biomedical Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering of Hainan Province, School of Biomedical Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering of Hainan Province, School of Biomedical Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering of Hainan Province, School of Biomedical Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou, China
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Affiliated Haikou Hospital of Xiangya Medical College, Central South University, Haikou, China
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Affiliated Haikou Hospital of Xiangya Medical College, Central South University, Haikou, China
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- Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering of Hainan Province, School of Biomedical Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou, China
- *Correspondence: Ming Yin,
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Fabre A, Portela Miguez R, Wall CE, Peckre LR, Ehmke E, Boistel R. A
review of nose picking in primates with new evidence of its occurrence in
Daubentonia madagascariensis. J Zool (1987) 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/jzo.13034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- A.‐C. Fabre
- Naturhistorisches Museum Bern Bern Switzerland
- Institute of Ecology and Evolution University of Bern Bern Switzerland
- Department of Life Sciences Natural History Museum London UK
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- Department of Evolutionary Anthropology Duke University Durham NC USA
- Duke Lemur Center Durham NC USA
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- Cognitive Ethology Laboratory, German Primate Centre, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research Göttingen Germany
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- UMR 7179 C.N.R.S/M.N.H.N. Paris Cedex 5 France
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MacLean KFE, Dickerson CR. Development of a comparative chimpanzee musculoskeletal glenohumeral model: implications for human function. J Exp Biol 2020; 223:jeb225987. [PMID: 33071220 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.225987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2020] [Accepted: 10/01/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
Abstract
Modern human shoulder function is affected by the evolutionary adaptations that have occurred to ensure survival and prosperity of the species. Robust examination of behavioral shoulder performance and injury risk can be holistically improved through an interdisciplinary approach that integrates anthropology and biomechanics. Coordination of these fields can allow different perspectives to contribute to a more complete interpretation of biomechanics of the modern human shoulder. The purpose of this study was to develop a novel biomechanical and comparative chimpanzee glenohumeral model, designed to parallel an existing human glenohumeral model, and compare predicted musculoskeletal outputs between the two models. The chimpanzee glenohumeral model consists of three modules - an external torque module, a musculoskeletal geometric module and an internal muscle force prediction module. Together, these modules use postural kinematics, subject-specific anthropometrics, a novel shoulder rhythm, glenohumeral stability ratios, hand forces, musculoskeletal geometry and an optimization routine to estimate joint reaction forces and moments, subacromial space dimensions, and muscle and tissue forces. Using static postural data of a horizontal bimanual suspension task, predicted muscle forces and subacromial space were compared between chimpanzees and humans. Compared with chimpanzees, the human model predicted a 2 mm narrower subacromial space, deltoid muscle forces that were often double those of chimpanzees and a strong reliance on infraspinatus and teres minor (60-100% maximal force) over other rotator cuff muscles. These results agree with previous work on inter-species differences that inform basic human rotator cuff function and pathology.
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- Kathleen F E MacLean
- Division of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University, 6260 South Street, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 4R2
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1
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Peckre LR, Lowie A, Brewer D, Ehmke E, Welser K, Shaw E, Wall C, Pouydebat E, Fabre AC. Food mobility and the evolution of grasping behaviour: a case study in strepsirrhine primates. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019; 222:jeb.207688. [PMID: 31558589 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.207688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2019] [Accepted: 09/23/2019] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Manual grasping is widespread among tetrapods but is more prominent and dexterous in primates. Whether the selective pressures that drove the evolution of dexterous hand grasping involved the collection of fruit or predation on mobile insects remains an area of debate. One way to explore this question is to examine preferences for manual versus oral grasping of a moving object. Previous studies on strepsirrhines have shown a preference for oral grasping when grasping static food items and a preference for manual grasping when grasping mobile prey such as insects, but little is known about the factors at play. Using a controlled experiment with a simple and predictable motion of a food item, we tested and compared the grasping behaviours of 53 captive individuals belonging to 17 species of strepsirrhines while grasping swinging food items and static food items. The swinging motion increased the frequency of hand-use for all individuals. Our results provide evidence that the swinging motion of the food is a sufficient parameter to increase hand grasping in a wide variety of strepsirrhine primates. From an evolutionary perspective, this result gives some support to the idea that hand-grasping abilities evolved under selective pressure associated with the predation of food items in motion. Looking at a common grasping pattern across a large set of species, this study provides important insight into comparative approaches to understanding the evolution of the hand grasping of food in primates and potentially other tetrapod taxa.
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- Louise Rachel Peckre
- UMR 7179 CNRS/MNHN, 57 rue Cuvier, Case postale 55, 75231 Paris Cedex 5, France .,Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Unit, German Primate Center - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Kellnerweg 4, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.,Leibniz Science Campus 'Primate Cognition', 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- UMR 7179 CNRS/MNHN, 57 rue Cuvier, Case postale 55, 75231 Paris Cedex 5, France.,Evolutionary Morphology of Vertebrates, Ghent University, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Duke Lemur Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA
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- Duke Lemur Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA
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- Duke Lemur Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA
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- Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- UMR 7179 CNRS/MNHN, 57 rue Cuvier, Case postale 55, 75231 Paris Cedex 5, France.,Duke Lemur Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA.,Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5DB, UK
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Pouydebat E, Bardo A. An interdisciplinary approach to the evolution of grasping and manipulation. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blz058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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- Emmanuelle Pouydebat
- UMR 7179 CNRS/MNHN, Département d’Ecologie et de Gestion de la Biodiversité, Paris, France
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- Animal Postcranial Evolution Laboratory, Skeletal Biology Research Centre, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK
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Peckre LR, Fabre AC, Hambuckers J, Wall CE, Socias-Martínez L, Pouydebat E. Food properties influence grasping strategies in strepsirrhines. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/bly215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- Louise R Peckre
- UMR 7179 CNRS/MNHN, 57 rue Cuvier, Case postale, Paris Cedex 5, France
- Behavioural Ecology & Sociobiology Unit, German Primate Centre, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Kellnerweg, Göttingen, Germany
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- UMR 7179 CNRS/MNHN, 57 rue Cuvier, Case postale, Paris Cedex 5, France
- Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
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- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Chair of Statistics, Humboldtallee, Göttingen, Germany
- HEC Liège, University of Liège, 14 rue Louvrex, Liège, Belgium
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- Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, USA
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- Behavioural Ecology & Sociobiology Unit, German Primate Centre, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Kellnerweg, Göttingen, Germany
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Fox DM, Mundinano IC, Bourne JA. Prehensile kinematics of the marmoset monkey: Implications for the evolution of visually-guided behaviors. J Comp Neurol 2019; 527:1495-1507. [PMID: 30680739 DOI: 10.1002/cne.24639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2018] [Revised: 01/06/2019] [Accepted: 01/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Throughout the primate lineage, there is a wide diversity of prehensile capacity that is thought to stem from individual species foraging patterns. While many studies have explored primates with precise hand grips, such as higher apes, few have considered primates that lack opposition movements. The New World marmoset monkey occupies an intriguing niche, displaying adept control of their hand movements yet their absence of opposable digits results in relatively imprecise grasping actions when compared with those observed in Old World monkeys, apes, and humans. The marmoset monkey offers a unique composition of ancestral primate corticospinal organization combined with skilled hand use to explore the evolution and development of visually-guided actions. In this study, four adult marmosets were trained to perform a series of visually-guided tasks, designed to assess their control over locating and retrieving objects of differing dimensions. Two of these animals received a neonatal lesion of the inferior pulvinar (unilateral), a thalamic nucleus previously demonstrated to be involved in visuomotor development. The kinematics of their reaching and grasping patterns were recorded for offline analysis. Predictive modeling revealed that maximum grip aperture, time to reach peak velocity and hand use were reliable predictors of distinguishing between cohorts. A consistent feature observed across all tasks was that they do not precisely scale their grip according to the dimensions of the target object which may be attributed to their lack of independent digit control. Therefore, the marmoset monkey represents a previously understudied position in the evolution of primate reach and grasp behavior.
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- Dylan M Fox
- Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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Fabre AC, Peckre L, Pouydebat E, Wall CE. Does the shape of forelimb long bones co-vary with grasping behaviour in strepsirrhine primates? Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/bly188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Fine prehensile activities are often thought to have been associated with the evolution of the human hand. However, there has been no holistic approach establishing the link between the morphology of the forelimb and grasping ability in living primates. The present study investigated the possible relationships between grasping behaviour and the morphology of the forelimb in strepsirrhines in a phylogenetic context. To do so, grasping behaviour during feeding and the shape of the long bones of the forelimb were analysed for 22 species of strepsirrhines. The data obtained show that there is a phylogenetic signal in forelimb morphology in primates in relation to grasping behaviour, but also that there is a marked co-evolution between grasping behaviour and the shape of the humerus and radius. This latter finding suggests a functional association between grasping and forelimb shape, which in turn suggests that bone shape constrains or facilitates behaviour. This result may permit future inferences to be made regarding this behaviour in extinct species and deserves further examination in more detail.
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- Anne-Claire Fabre
- Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
- Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, USA
- UMR 7179 C.N.R.S., M.N.H.N. Département d’Ecologie et de Gestion de la Biodiversité, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
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- UMR 7179 C.N.R.S., M.N.H.N. Département d’Ecologie et de Gestion de la Biodiversité, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
- Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology Unit, German Primate Center Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Deutsches Primatenzentrum GmbH, Kellnerweg, Göttingen, Germany
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- UMR 7179 C.N.R.S., M.N.H.N. Département d’Ecologie et de Gestion de la Biodiversité, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
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- Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, USA
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Bardo A, Vigouroux L, Kivell TL, Pouydebat E. The impact of hand proportions on tool grip abilities in humans, great apes and fossil hominins: A biomechanical analysis using musculoskeletal simulation. J Hum Evol 2018; 125:106-121. [PMID: 30502891 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2018] [Revised: 10/02/2018] [Accepted: 10/03/2018] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
Abstract
Differences in grip techniques used across primates are usually attributed to variation in thumb-finger proportions and muscular anatomy of the hand. However, this cause-effect relationship is not fully understood because little is known about the biomechanical functioning and mechanical loads (e.g., muscle or joint forces) of the non-human primate hand compared to that of humans during object manipulation. This study aims to understand the importance of hand proportions on the use of different grip strategies used by humans, extant great apes (bonobos, gorillas and orangutans) and, potentially, fossil hominins (Homo naledi and Australopithecus sediba) using a musculoskeletal model of the hand. Results show that certain grips are more challenging for some species, particularly orangutans, than others, such that they require stronger muscle forces for a given range of motion. Assuming a human-like range of motion at each hand joint, simulation results show that H. naledi and A. sediba had the biomechanical potential to use the grip techniques considered important for stone tool-related behaviors in humans. These musculoskeletal simulation results shed light on the functional consequences of the different hand proportions among extant and extinct hominids and the different manipulative abilities found in humans and great apes.
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- Ameline Bardo
- Paris Descartes University, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, 75006, France; Department of Adaptations du Vivant, UMR 7179-CNRS/MNHN, MECADEV, Paris, 75321, France; Animal Postcranial Evolution Laboratory, Skeletal Biology Research Centre, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NR, United Kingdom.
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- Institute of Movement Sciences, UMR 7287-CNRS, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, 13288, France
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- Animal Postcranial Evolution Laboratory, Skeletal Biology Research Centre, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NR, United Kingdom; Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany; Evolutionary Studies Institute and Centre for Excellence in PalaeoSciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa
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- Department of Adaptations du Vivant, UMR 7179-CNRS/MNHN, MECADEV, Paris, 75321, France
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Truppa V, Carducci P, Sabbatini G. Object grasping and manipulation in capuchin monkeys (genera Cebus and Sapajus). Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/bly131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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- Valentina Truppa
- Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council (CNR), Via Ulisse Aldrovandi, Rome, Italy
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- Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council (CNR), Via Ulisse Aldrovandi, Rome, Italy
- Environmental and Evolutionary Biology PhD Program, Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro, Rome, Italy
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- Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council (CNR), Via Ulisse Aldrovandi, Rome, Italy
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Peckre L, Fabre AC, Wall CE, Brewer D, Ehmke E, Haring D, Shaw E, Welser K, Pouydebat E. Holding-on: co-evolution between infant carrying and grasping behaviour in strepsirrhines. Sci Rep 2016; 6:37729. [PMID: 27883046 PMCID: PMC5121892 DOI: 10.1038/srep37729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2016] [Accepted: 10/31/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The origin and evolution of manual grasping remain poorly understood. The ability to cling requires important grasping abilities and is essential to survive in species where the young are carried in the fur. A previous study has suggested that this behaviour could be a pre-adaptation for the evolution of fine manipulative skills. In this study we tested the co-evolution between infant carrying in the fur and manual grasping abilities in the context of food manipulation. As strepsirrhines vary in the way infants are carried (mouth vs. fur), they are an excellent model to test this hypothesis. Data on food manipulation behaviour were collected for 21 species of strepsirrhines. Our results show that fur-carrying species exhibited significantly more frequent manual grasping of food items. This study clearly illustrates the potential novel insights that a behaviour (infant carrying) that has previously been largely ignored in the discussion of the evolution of primate manipulation can bring.
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- Louise Peckre
- UMR 7179 C.N.R.S/M.N.H.N., 57 rue Cuvier, Case postale 55, 75231, Paris Cedex 5, France
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- UMR 7179 C.N.R.S/M.N.H.N., 57 rue Cuvier, Case postale 55, 75231, Paris Cedex 5, France
- Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 27708, USA
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- Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 27708, USA
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- Duke Lemur Center, Durham, North Carolina, 27705, USA
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- Duke Lemur Center, Durham, North Carolina, 27705, USA
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- Duke Lemur Center, Durham, North Carolina, 27705, USA
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- Duke Lemur Center, Durham, North Carolina, 27705, USA
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- Duke Lemur Center, Durham, North Carolina, 27705, USA
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- UMR 7179 C.N.R.S/M.N.H.N., 57 rue Cuvier, Case postale 55, 75231, Paris Cedex 5, France
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Bardo A, Borel A, Meunier H, Guéry JP, Pouydebat E. Behavioral and functional strategies during tool use tasks in bonobos. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2016; 161:125-40. [PMID: 27311774 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2015] [Revised: 04/27/2016] [Accepted: 05/09/2016] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Abstract
Different primate species have developed extensive capacities for grasping and manipulating objects. However, the manual abilities of primates remain poorly known from a dynamic point of view. The aim of the present study was to quantify the functional and behavioral strategies used by captive bonobos (Pan paniscus) during tool use tasks. The study was conducted on eight captive bonobos which we observed during two tool use tasks: food extraction from a large piece of wood and food recovery from a maze. We focused on grasping postures, in-hand movements, the sequences of grasp postures used that have not been studied in bonobos, and the kind of tools selected. Bonobos used a great variety of grasping postures during both tool use tasks. They were capable of in-hand movement, demonstrated complex sequences of contacts, and showed more dynamic manipulation during the maze task than during the extraction task. They arrived on the location of the task with the tool already modified and used different kinds of tools according to the task. We also observed individual manual strategies. Bonobos were thus able to develop in-hand movements similar to humans and chimpanzees, demonstrated dynamic manipulation, and they responded to task constraints by selecting and modifying tools appropriately, usually before they started the tasks. These results show the necessity to quantify object manipulation in different species to better understand their real manual specificities, which is essential to reconstruct the evolution of primate manual abilities.
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- Ameline Bardo
- Paris Descartes University, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, 75006, France.,Department of Ecology and Management of Biodiversity, UMR 7179-CNRS/MNHN, MECADEV, Paris, 75321, France
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- Department of Prehistory, UMR 7194-CNRS-MNHN, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, 75116, France
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- Primatology Center of Strasbourg University, Fort Foch, Niederhausbergen, 67207, France.,Laboratory of Cognitive and Adaptative Neuroscience, UMR 7364-CNRS/, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, 67000, France
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- Department of Ecology and Management of Biodiversity, UMR 7179-CNRS/MNHN, MECADEV, Paris, 75321, France
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Experimental Research on Hand Use and Function in Primates. DEVELOPMENTS IN PRIMATOLOGY: PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3646-5_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Fragaszy DM, Crast J. Functions of the Hand in Primates. DEVELOPMENTS IN PRIMATOLOGY: PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3646-5_12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Feix T, Kivell TL, Pouydebat E, Dollar AM. Estimating thumb-index finger precision grip and manipulation potential in extant and fossil primates. J R Soc Interface 2015; 12:20150176. [PMID: 25878134 PMCID: PMC4424698 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2015.0176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2015] [Accepted: 03/23/2015] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Primates, and particularly humans, are characterized by superior manual dexterity compared with other mammals. However, drawing the biomechanical link between hand morphology/behaviour and functional capabilities in non-human primates and fossil taxa has been challenging. We present a kinematic model of thumb-index precision grip and manipulative movement based on bony hand morphology in a broad sample of extant primates and fossil hominins. The model reveals that both joint mobility and digit proportions (scaled to hand size) are critical for determining precision grip and manipulation potential, but that having either a long thumb or great joint mobility alone does not necessarily yield high precision manipulation. The results suggest even the oldest available fossil hominins may have shared comparable precision grip manipulation with modern humans. In particular, the predicted human-like precision manipulation of Australopithecus afarensis, approximately one million years before the first stone tools, supports controversial archaeological evidence of tool-use in this taxon.
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- Thomas Feix
- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University, 9 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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- Animal Postcranial Evolution Laboratory, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Marlowe Building, Canterbury CT2 7NR, UK Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig 04103, Germany
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- Département d'Ecologie et de Gestion de la Biodiversité, UMR 7179 CNRS/MNHN, 57 rue Cuvier, Case postale 55, 75231 Paris Cedex 5, France
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University, 9 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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Brunon A, Bovet D, Bourgeois A, Pouydebat E. Motivation and manipulation capacities of the blue and yellow macaw and the tufted capuchin: A comparative approach. Behav Processes 2014; 107:1-14. [DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2014.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2013] [Revised: 06/01/2014] [Accepted: 06/06/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Sartori L, Camperio-Ciani A, Bulgheroni M, Castiello U. Monkey see, monkey reach: action selection of reaching movements in the macaque monkey. Sci Rep 2014; 4:4019. [PMID: 24503774 PMCID: PMC3916872 DOI: 10.1038/srep04019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2013] [Accepted: 01/22/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
Highly efficient systems are needed to link perception with action in the context of the highly complex environments in which primates move and interact. Another important component is, nonetheless, needed for action: selection. When one piece of fruit from a branch is being chosen by a monkey, many other pieces are within reach and visible: do the perceptual features of the objects surrounding a target determine interference effects? In humans, reaching to grasp a desired object appears to integrate the motor features of the objects which might become potential targets - a process which seems to be driven by inhibitory attention mechanisms. Here we show that non-human primates use similar mechanisms when carrying out goal-directed actions. The data indicate that the volumetric features of distractors are internally represented, implying that the basic cognitive operations allowing for action selection have deep evolutionary roots.
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- Luisa Sartori
- Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy
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Reghem E, Chèze L, Coppens Y, Pouydebat E. The influence of body posture on the kinematics of prehension in humans and gorillas (Gorilla gorilla). Exp Brain Res 2014; 232:1047-56. [DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3817-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2013] [Accepted: 12/16/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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How posture affects macaques’ reach-to-grasp movements. Exp Brain Res 2013; 232:919-25. [DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3804-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2013] [Accepted: 11/29/2013] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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