Post-hatch activity-dependent modulation of visual asymmetry formation in pigeons

NeuroReport

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1311-1314

  Prior, H ^a   Diekamp, B ^b   Gunturkun O ^a   Manns, M ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Lateralization; Plasticity; Tetrodotoxin; Visual system

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DOMINANCE; HATCHING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MODULATION; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 2942565991     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000129575.43925.10     Document Type: Article

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