From optics to attention: visual perception in barn owls

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Journal of Comparative Physiology

• Publication date

  2011-07-07

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1007/s00359-011-0664-3PMID 21735223
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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