Pigeon's recognition of cartoons: Effects of fragmentation, scrambling, and deletion of elements

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 25-34

  Matsukawa, Atsuko ^a   Inoue, Sana ^a   Jitsumori, Masako ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cartoon; Categorization; Pattern recognition; Pigeon; Visual concept

Indexed keywords

BIRD; RECOGNITION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ART; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE; EYEBROW; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; RECOGNITION; TRAINING;

COLUMBA;

EID: 1642575250     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(03)00147-5     Document Type: Article

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