Present/absent sample matching in pigeons: Is comparison choice controlled by the sample stimulus or by differential sample responding?

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 288-294

  Weaver, Janice E ^a   Dorrance, Brigette R ^a   Zentall, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; NONHUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PIGEON; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0032875919     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03199727     Document Type: Article

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