Lateralization of Spatial Learning in the Avian Hippocampal Formation

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 333-344

  Kahn, Meghan C ^a   Bingman, Verner P ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COLUMBIDAE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 1842479450     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.118.2.333     Document Type: Article

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