Experience during a period of right hemispheric dominance alters attention to spatial information in the domestic chick

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 413-418

  Freire, Rafael ^a   Rogers, Lesley J ^b  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

domestic chick; Gallus gallus domesticus; hemispheric dominance; hidden goal; sensitive period; spatial information

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INFORMATION; POULTRY;

GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 34548635347     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.09.018     Document Type: Article

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