Lateralisation of escape responses in the stripe-faced dunnart, Sminthopsis macroura (Dasyuridae: Marsupialia)

Laterality

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 457-470

  Lippolis, Giuseppe ^a   Westman, Wendy ^a   McAllan, Bronwyn M ^a   Rogers, Lesley J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MARSUPIAL; MONOCULAR VISION; NONHUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCORING SYSTEM; SNAKE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VERTEBRATE; VISUAL FIELD;

ANIMALS; ESCAPE REACTION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; MARSUPIALIA; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; SNAKES; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 25844476800     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: 14640678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576500442000210     Document Type: Article

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