Pigeons' memory for empty time intervals marked by visual or auditory stimuli

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 190-205

  Santi, Angelo ^a   Ross, Lori ^a   Coppa, Romina ^a   Coyle, James ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA; ITI;

EID: 0033045046     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03199675     Document Type: Article

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