Shift of Laterality and Compared Analysis of Paw Performances in Cats during Practice of a Visuomotor Task

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 307-315

  Lorincz, Erika ^a   Fabre Thorpe, Michèle ^a  

^a Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CATS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; ORIENTATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0030237376     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.110.3.307     Document Type: Article

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