Recall of three-item sequences by pigeons

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 193-205

  Terrace, H S ^a   Chen, Shaofu ^a   Jaswal, Vikram ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; RECALL;

ANIMALIA; COLUMBA;

EID: 0029916379     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03198967     Document Type: Article

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