Searching for the center: Spatial cognition in the domestic chick (Gallus gallus)

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 477-486

  Tommasi, Luca ^a   Vallortigara, Giorgio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHICKEN; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHICKENS; COGNITION; LEARNING; MALE; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0034305654     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.26.4.477     Document Type: Article

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