Functional lateralization, interhemispheric transfer and position bias in serial reversal learning in pigeons (Columba livia)

Animal Cognition

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 187-196

  Diekamp, B ^a   Prior, H ^a   Gunturkun O ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Birds; Discrimination learning; Hemispheric asymmetries; Interocular transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001428343     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100710050039     Document Type: Article

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