Global-feature classification can be acquired more rapidly than local-feature classification in both humans and pigeons

Animal Cognition

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 109-113

  Goto, Kazuhiro ^a   Wills, A J ^a   Lea, Stephen E G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Categorization; Gestalt perception; Global local processing; Pigeons; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; COLUMBA; PRIMATES;

ADULT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 2942736998     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-003-0193-8     Document Type: Article

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