When one hemisphere takes control: Metacontrol in pigeons (Columba livia)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Adam, Ruth ^a,b   Güntürkün, Onur ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EYE DOMINANCE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MONOCULAR VISION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC CHIASM; PIGEON; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; COLOR VISION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; VISION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLUMBIDAE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 65349146474     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005307     Document Type: Article

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