Form perception and attention in pigeons

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-20

  Blough, Donald S ^a   Blough, Patricia M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PIGEON; REACTION TIME; THEORY;

ANIMALIA; COLUMBA;

EID: 0031052235     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03199020     Document Type: Article

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