Is it only humans that count from left to right?

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Published in Biol Lett on January 13, 2010

Authors

Rosa Rugani1, Debbie M Kelly, Izabela Szelest, Lucia Regolin, Giorgio Vallortigara

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Corso Bettini 31, 38068 Rovereto, Italy. rosa.rugani@unitn.it

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