Searching in the Center: Pigeons (Columba livia) Encode Relative Distance From Walls of an Enclosure

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 113-117

  Gray, Emily R ^a   Spetch, Marcia L ^a   Kelly, Debbie M ^a,b   Nguyen, Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; PIGEONS AND DOVES; RECOGNITION; REINFORCEMENT; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLUMBIDAE; CUES; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 1842425212     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.118.1.113     Document Type: Article

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