Orientation discrimination and categorization of photographs of natural objects by pigeons

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 205-226

  Jitsumori, Masako ^a   Ohkubo, Osamu ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Categorization; Concept discrimination; Orientation discrimination; Pigeon

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; REVIEW; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TRAINING; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA;

EID: 0030454778     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(96)00030-7     Document Type: Article

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