Advantages of having a lateralized brain

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue SUPPL. 6, 2004, Pages

  Rogers, Lesley J ^a   Zucca, Paolo ^b   Vallortigara, Giorgio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Advantages; Brain lateralization; Chicks; Foraging; Simultaneous tasks; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COGNITION; VERTEBRATE;

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHICKEN; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 17044396009     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0200     Document Type: Article

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