Attention and timing: Dual-task performance in pigeons

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 45, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 141-157

  Lejeune, Helga ^a   MacAr, Françoise ^b   Zakay, Dan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b CNRS CRNC   (France)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Attention; Dual task; Pigeons; Timing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032974618     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(99)00015-7     Document Type: Article

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