Monocular deprivation alters the direction of functional and morphological asymmetries in the pigeon's (Columba livia) visual system

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1257-1266

  Manns, Martina ^a   Güntürkün, Onur ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DOMINANCE; MONOCULAR DEPRIVATION; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0343340429     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.113.6.1257     Document Type: Article

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