Limits of dynamic object perception in pigeons: Dynamic stimulus presentation does not enhance perception and discrimination of complex shape

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 71-85

  Loidolt, Michaela ^a   Aust, Ulrike ^a   Steurer, Michael ^a   Troje, Nikolaus F ^b   Huber, Ludwig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; FACE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PIGEON; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PIGEONS AND DOVES; VISION;

ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33746223088     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03192873     Document Type: Article

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