Novelty and functional equivalence in superordinate categorization by pigeons

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 125-138

  Astley, Suzette L ^a   Wasserman, Edward A ^b  

^a Hospital for Special Surgery   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA;

EID: 0031808071     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03199206     Document Type: Article

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