Roots of brain specializations: Preferential left-eye use during mirror- image inspection in six species of teleost fish

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 106, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 175-180

  Sovrano, V A ^a   Rainoldi, C ^a   Bisazza, A ^a   Vallortigara, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fish; Left eye preference; Predator fixation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELEOST;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CYPRINIDAE; FEMALE; FISHES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032702172     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(99)00105-9     Document Type: Article

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