Lateral asymmetries due to preferences in eye use during visual discrimination learning in chicks

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 74, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 135-143

  Vallortigara, G ^a   Regolin, L ^b   Bortolomiol, G ^b   Tommasi, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain assymmetry; Chick; Eye use; Gallus gallus domesticus; Lateralization; Position learning; Visual learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0029670801     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-4328(95)00037-2     Document Type: Article

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