Use of Position and Feature Cues in Discrimination Learning by the Whiptail Lizard (Cnemidophorus inornatus)

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 440-448

  Day, Lainy Baird ^a,b   Ismail, Nyla ^a,c   Wilczynski, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; COLOR VISION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EVALUATION; LIZARD; MALE; RANDOMIZATION; VISION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LIZARDS; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0347510568     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.117.4.440     Document Type: Article

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