Measuring the search image: Expectation, detection, and recognition in pigeon visual search

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 397-405

  Blough, Donald S ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLUMBA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PIGEONS AND DOVES; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; REINFORCEMENT; VISION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTENTION; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIZE PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036780388     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.28.4.397     Document Type: Article

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