The study of hemispheric specialization for categorical and coordinate spatial relations in animals

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1524-1534

  Vauclair, Jacques ^a   Yamazaki, Yumiko ^b   Güntürkün, Onur ^c  

^a Department of Psychology   (France)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BABOON; BIRD; BRAIN; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; COGNITION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BRAIN; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PRIMATES; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33744902320     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.01.021     Document Type: Article

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