Lateralized response of chicks to magnetic cues

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 66-71

  Rogers, Lesley J ^a   Munro, Ursula ^b   Freire, Rafael ^a   Wiltschko, Roswitha ^c   Wiltschko, Wolfgang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chicks; Hemispheric specialization; Lateralization; Magnetic compass; Monocular testing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BINOCULAR VISION; CHICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOWL; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHICKENS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; VISION, MONOCULAR;

EID: 36049026783     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.07.029     Document Type: Article

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