Complementary and lateralized forms of processing in Bufo marinus for novel and familiar prey

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 214-227

  Robins, Andrew ^a   Rogers, Lesley J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Habituation; Lateralization; Learning; Novelty; Prey catching; Simultaneous choice; Toad; Vision

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EYE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HYPOTHESIS; INSECT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MEMORY; MONOCULAR VISION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PREDATION; PREY; RECOGNITION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOAD; VERTEBRATE; VIDEORECORDER; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BUFO MARINUS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33747843361     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2006.03.002     Document Type: Article

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