Right-left discrimination in a biologically oriented model of the cockroach escape system

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 89-99

  Ezrachi, Erez A ^a   Levi, Rafael ^a   Camhi, Jeffrey M ^a   Parnas, Hanna ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COCKROACH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; COCKROACHES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ESCAPE REACTION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORIENTATION;

EID: 0033176318     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004220050546     Document Type: Article

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