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THE tendency in many species to confuse pairs of stimuli which are lateral mirror images of one another1 may survive attempts to train animals to discriminate between mirror images. Even when such training has apparently been successful, the animal may actually distinguish the stimuli on the basis of cues other than left–right ones2.
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BEALE, I., WILLIAMS, R., WEBSTER, D. et al. Confusion of Mirror Images by Pigeons and Interhemispheric Commissures. Nature 238, 348–349 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/238348a0
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