Entropy detection by pigeons: Response to mixed visual displays after same-different discrimination training

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 157-170

  Young, Michael E ^a   Wasserman, Edward A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ENTROPY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PIGEONS AND DOVES; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ENTROPY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0031110856     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.23.2.157     Document Type: Article

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