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Assessing Human Spatial Navigation in a Virtual Space and its Sensitivity to Exercise
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Of birds and men: convergent evolution in hippocampal lateralization and spatial cognition
Verner P Bingman1, Anna Gagliardo
1Department of Psychology and J.P. Scott Center for Neuroscience, Mind and Behavior, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA. vbingma@bgsu.edu
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