How fish do geometry in large and in small spaces

Animal Cognition

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 47-54

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chick; Children; Fish; Geometric module; Modularity; Spatial orientation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FISH; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VISION;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FISHES; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; GOODEIDAE; XENOTOCA EISENI;

EID: 33845327149     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-006-0029-4     Document Type: Article

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