Learning the Configuration of a Landmark Array: I. Touch-Screen Studies with Pigeons and Humans

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 55-68

  Spetch, Marcia L ^a   Cheng, Ken ^b,d   MacDonald, Suzanne E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PIGEONS AND DOVES; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECALL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOUCH;

ADULT; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COLUMBIDAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOUCH; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0030093387     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.110.1.55     Document Type: Article

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