The impact of asymmetrical light input on cerebral hemispheric specialization and interhemispheric cooperation

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Manns, Martina ^a   Römling, Juliane ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; DARKNESS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; KNOWLEDGE; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; ANIMAL; BINOCULAR VISION; BRAIN; MONOCULAR VISION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA;

ANIMALS; CEREBRUM; COGNITION; COLUMBIDAE; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; LIGHT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84857729156     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1699     Document Type: Article

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