The Functional Significance of Motor Laterality

运动偏侧性的功能意义

• 批准号: LP0669908
• 负责人: Prof Paul McGreevy
• 金额: $ 6万
• 依托单位: The University of Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Projects
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2007-05-09 至 2010-09-23
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LP0669908
• 关键词: Functional; Significance; Motor; Laterality

Just as humans are left- or right-handed, dogs are left-and right-pawed and, most importantly, left-pawed individuals tend towards innate fearfulness. Using dogs as a model, this project will explore lateralisation in general. Guide dogs and police dogs are required to work only on one side of their handlers. This convention is likely to affect the work of individual dogs. This project will examine the extent to which pawedness predicts success in working dog training. It has the potential to reduce wastage that comes from recruitment of unsuitable dogs and will also improve our understanding of family pets.

就像人类是左撇子或右撇子一样，狗也是左撇子和右撇子，最重要的是，左撇子的人倾向于天生的恐惧。以狗为模型，这个项目将探讨一般的偏侧化。 导盲犬和警犬只能在训练员的一侧工作。这一惯例可能会影响个别狗的工作。这个项目将研究在何种程度上pawedness预测成功的工作犬训练。它有可能减少因招募不合适的狗而造成的浪费，也将提高我们对家庭宠物的了解。