Searching image in blue jays: Facilitation and interference in sequential priming

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 461-471

  Bond, Alan B ^a,b   Kamil, Alan C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BIRD; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; NONHUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032786712     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03209981     Document Type: Article

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