Evidence for interhemispheric conflict during meta-control in pigeons

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 270, Issue , 2014, Pages 146-150

  Ünver, Emre ^a   Güntürkün, Onur ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bird; Brain asymmetry; Hemispheric interaction; Reaction time; Response conflict

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN FUNCTION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLUMBA LIVIA; CONFLICT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; MALE; MONOCULAR VISION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; PECKING; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; BRAIN; COLOR VISION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLUMBIDAE; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84901444699     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2014.05.016     Document Type: Article

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