Laterality enhances cognition in Australian parrots

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1676, 2009, Pages 4155-4162

  Magat, Maria ^a   Brown, Culum ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Cognition; Discrimination; Lateralization; Parrots; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BRAIN; COGNITION; FITNESS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; NONHUMAN; PARROT; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AUSTRALIA;

GEOPSITTACUS OCCIDENTALIS; INVERTEBRATA; PSITTACIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 72849131210     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1397     Document Type: Article

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