Hemispheric asymmetries: The comparative view

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue JAN, 2012, Pages

  Ocklenburg, Sebastian ^a   Güntürkün, Onur ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Environmental; Genetics; Lateralization; Pigeon; Tectofugal pathway; Thalamofugal pathway; White matter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866074808     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00005     Document Type: Review

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