Modularity as a Fish (Xenotoca eiseni) Views It: Conjoining Geometric and Nongeometric Information for Spatial Reorientation

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 199-210

  Sovrano, Valeria Anna ^a   Bisazza, Angelo ^a   Vallortigara, Giorgio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ESCAPE REACTION; FEMALE; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPACE PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOTOCA; XENOTOCA EISENI;

EID: 0141707860     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.29.3.199     Document Type: Article

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