Encoding of spatial information in images of an outdoor scene by pigeons and humans

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 85-102

  Spetch, Marcia L ^a   Kelly, Debbie M ^a   Lechelt, David P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DIGITAL FILTERING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; REINFORCEMENT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALIA; COLUMBA;

EID: 0031893040     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03199164     Document Type: Article

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