Effect of Avian-Human Joint Attention on Allospecific Vocal Learning by Grey Parrots (Psittacus erithacus)

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 286-297

  Pepperberg, Irene M ^a,b   McLaughlin, Mary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMITATION; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; PARROT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VOCALIZATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BONDING, HUMAN-PET; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; PARROTS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0030239088     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.110.3.286     Document Type: Article

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