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Behavioural and Anatomical Aspects of Monocular Vision in Birds

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In recent years, anatomical and physiological studies have changed our view of the avian visual system. They have revealed a number of similarities in the visual pathways between mammals and birds. At least seven areas receive primary projections from the retina (Cowan et al., 1961; Hirschberger, 1967, 1971). In five of them,efferent connections are still unknown or ill-defined. Hence, attention will be restricted to the two main afferent pathways whose target is the telencephalon.

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  1. MRC Unit on Neural Mechanisms of Behaviour, UK

    I. Steele Russell

  2. Department of Physiology 1, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    M. W. van Hof

  3. Institute of Physiology, University of Pisa, Italy

    G. Berlucchi

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Maier, V. (1979). Behavioural and Anatomical Aspects of Monocular Vision in Birds. In: Russell, I.S., van Hof, M.W., Berlucchi, G. (eds) Structure and Function of Cerebral Commissures. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03645-5_5

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