Cognitive precedence for local information in hierarchical stimulus processing by pigeons

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 3-16

  Cavoto, Kimberley K ^a   Cook, Robert G ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COGNITION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; PIGEONS AND DOVES;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; MALE;

EID: 0035219586     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.27.1.3     Document Type: Article

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