Learning of colour and position cues in domestic chicks: Males are better at position, females at colour

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 289-296

  Vallortigara, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attention; Colour discrimination learning; Domestic chick; Gallus gallus domesticus; Position discrimination learning; Sex difference; Visual learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHICKEN; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSITION; REINFORCEMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0029927256     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0376-6357(95)00063-1     Document Type: Article

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