Do pigeons show incidental timing? Some experiments and a suggested hierarchical framework for the study of attention in animal cognition

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 263-275

  Sutton, Jennifer E ^a   Roberts, William A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal cognition; Divided attention; Incidental timing; Matching to sample; Pigeon

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PIGEON; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TIME PERCEPTION; TRAINING;

EID: 0032449989     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(98)00053-9     Document Type: Article

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