Left-hemispheric superiority for visuospatial orientation in homing pigeons

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 104, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 169-178

  Ulrich, Christian ^a   Prior, Helmut ^b   Duka, Tatiana ^c   Leshchins'ka, Irina ^c   Valenti, Paolo ^a   Güntürkün, Onur ^b   Lipp, Hans Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c OLES HONCHAR DNIPRO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Brain asymmetry; Homing; Laterality; Pigeon; Visuospatial behavior

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAINING; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COLUMBIDAE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HOMING BEHAVIOR; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032828647     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(99)00062-5     Document Type: Article

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