Pigeons Use Item-Specific and Category-Level Information in the Identification and Categorization of Human Faces

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 261-276

  Loidolt, Michaela ^a   Aust, Ulrike ^a   Meran, Isabel ^a   Huber, Ludwig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EVALUATION; FACE; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; RANDOMIZATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEX FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; COLUMBA;

EID: 0142246243     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.29.4.261     Document Type: Article

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