Differential contributions of the two visual pathways to functional lateralization in chicks

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 173-182

  Deng, C ^a   Rogers, L J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Auditory behaviour; Chickens; Ectostriatum; Glutamate; Lateralization; Neostriatum; Visual behaviour; Visual hyperstriatum

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; COPULATION; CORPUS STRIATUM; EYE DOMINANCE; FOREBRAIN; HABITUATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; AROUSAL; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CHICKENS; COPULATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; GLUTAMIC ACID; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MOTIVATION; PROSENCEPHALON; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0030778942     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)02276-6     Document Type: Article

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