Capacity of birds for transitive inference: The solution of the gillan test by corvids and pigeons

Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 454-459

  Zorina, Z A ^a   Kalinina, T S ^a   Markina, N V ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; REINFORCEMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; COLUMBIDAE; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY, COMPARATIVE; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030228882     PISSN: 00970549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02359407     Document Type: Article

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