The pigeon's discrimination of visual entropy: A logarithmic function

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 306-314

  Young, Michael E ^b   Wasserman, Edward A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ENTROPY; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; REINFORCEMENT; THEORY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALIA; COLUMBA;

EID: 0036868955     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195956     Document Type: Article

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