Animals' use of landmarks and metric information to reorient: Effects of the size of the experimental space

Cognition

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 121-133

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Animal cognition; Geometric module; Human infants; Modularity; Spatial reorientation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; ERROR; FISH; GEOMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; FISHES; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 23744481212     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.08.003     Document Type: Article

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