Same-different texture discrimination in pigeons: Testing competing models of discrimination and stimulus integration

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 401-416

  Cook, Robert G ^a   Wixted, John T ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PIGEONS AND DOVES; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECEPTIVE FIELD; ROC CURVE;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROC CURVE;

EID: 0031253430     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.23.4.401     Document Type: Article

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