Visual lateralization in the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus): Evidence for a population asymmetry?

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 142, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 109-114

  Yaman, Sevgi ^a,c   Von Fersen, Lorenzo ^b   Dehnhardt, Guido ^c   Güntürkün, Onur ^c  

^a Marineland Mallorca   (Spain)

^b Tiergarten Stadt Nürnberg   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cetecea; Global; Interhemispheric transfer; Local; Monocular vision; Pattern discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DOLPHIN; EYE DOMINANCE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MONOCULAR VISION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0038616305     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00385-6     Document Type: Article

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