Pigeons' (Columba livia) Encoding of Geometric and Featural Properties of a Spatial Environment

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 259-269

  Kelly, Debbie M ^a   Spetch, Marcia L ^a   Heth, C Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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EID: 0001103328     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.112.3.259     Document Type: Article

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