Pigeon perception and discrimination of rapidly changing texture stimuli

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 390-400

  Cook, Robert G ^a   Cavoto, Brian R ^a   Katz, Jeffrey S ^a   Cavoto, Kimberley K ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PIGEONS AND DOVES; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECEPTIVE FIELD;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0031252625     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.23.4.390     Document Type: Article

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