Divided attention, memory, and spatial discrimination in food-storing and nonstoring birds, black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapilla) and dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis)

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 227-241

  Shettleworth, Sara J ^a   Westwood, Richard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; JUNCO (AVES); JUNCO HYEMALIS; PARIDAE; PARUS ATRICAPILLUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BIRD; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MEMORY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FOOD HABITS; MEMORY; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0036634906     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.28.3.227     Document Type: Article

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