Lateral asymmetries during responses to novel-coloured objects in the domestic chick: A developmental study

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 67-74

  Regolin, Lucia ^a   Vallortigara, Giorgio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chick; Development of lateralization; Gallus gallus domesticus; Lateralization; Novelty

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0029890801     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0376-6357(95)00076-3     Document Type: Article

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