William D. Hopkins
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
412 Papers
2.7K Citations
William D. Hopkins is an academic researcher from University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Cognition. The author has an hindex of 72, co-authored 389 publications. Previous affiliations of William D. Hopkins include Agnes Scott College & University of Georgia.
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Papers
Chimpanzees Differentially Produce Novel Vocalizations to Capture the Attention of a Human
TL;DR: The authors examined contextual elements of the use of two of these vocal signals, the Raspberry and the extended grunt, and demonstrated that these vocalizations are not elicited by the presence of food, but instead function as attention-getting signals.
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Primate Laterality: Current Behavioral Evidence of Primate Asymmetries
Jeannette P. Ward,William D. Hopkins +1 more
- 25 Mar 1993
TL;DR: This book is the first book of its kind devoted entirely to the question of behavioural asymmetries in all primates and thus presents a milestone as it recognizes the accumulating evidence of asymmetry and lateralized behaviour in the non-human nervous system.
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Intentional Communication by Chimpanzees: A Cross-Sectional Study of the Use of Referential Gestures
TL;DR: The authors found that the use of referential gestures with concomitant gaze orienting behavior to both distal food objects and communicative interactants by 115 chimpanzees, ranging from 3 to 56 years of age was associated with vocal and gestural communication.
Hand preferences for a coordinated bimanual task in 110 chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): cross-sectional analysis.
TL;DR: The results suggest that coordinated bimanual tasks elicit strong hand preferences at the individual level and elicit population level right-handedness.
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Tactical use of unimodal and bimodal communication by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
David A. Leavens,David A. Leavens,Autumn B. Hostetter,Michael J. Wesley,William D. Hopkins,William D. Hopkins +5 more
TL;DR: Chimpanzees tactically deployed their communicative behaviours in the visual and auditory domains in accordance with the manipulated attentional and intentional status of a human observer.
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