Pigeons' memory for sequences of light flashes: Reliance on temporal properties and evidence for delay interval/gap confusion

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 128-138

  Santi, Angelo ^a   Lellwitz, Jennifer ^a   Gagne, Stephen ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Delayed matching to sample; Memory for number; Number discrimination; Pigeon; Sequential stimuli

Indexed keywords

BIRD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ILLUMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIGHT; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PIGEON; TEMPORAL SUMMATION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BIAS; COLUMBA;

EID: 33244477030     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.01.006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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