Avian psychology and communication

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1547, 2004, Pages 1435-1442

  Rowe, Candy ^a   Skelhorn, John ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Discrimination learning; Memory; Operant; Perception; Receiver bias

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; CALLING BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; EVOLUTION; PERCEPTION; SIGNALING;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; BIRD; COGNITION; EVOLUTION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 3242711511     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2753     Document Type: Review

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