Limits of intraocular and interocular transfer in pigeons

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 69-78

  Ortega, Laura Jiménez ^a,c   Stoppa, Katrin ^a   Güntürkün, Onur ^a   Troje, Nikolaus F ^a,b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Avian visual perception; Interhemispheric transfer; Interocular transfer; Intraocular transfer; Visual asymmetries

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; FEMALE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LEARNING TEST; MALE; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; VISUAL FIELD;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RETINA; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); VISION; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 47849095940     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.04.022     Document Type: Article

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