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Lack of Eye to Eye Transfer of an Early Response Modification in Birds

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A chick reared on glass over the deep side of a “visual cliff” loses its innate aversion to the deep side. If it is reared with one eye occluded, however, the induced loss of preference for the shallow side is not transferable to the other eye.

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ZEIER, H. Lack of Eye to Eye Transfer of an Early Response Modification in Birds. Nature 225, 708–709 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/225708a0

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