Pigeons (Columba livia) associate time intervals with symbols in a touch screen task: Evidence for ordinality but not summation

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 82-94

  Olthof, Anneke ^a,b   Santi, Angelo ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ordinality; Pigeons; Summation; Symbol use; Temporal representation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PIGEONS AND DOVES; REINFORCEMENT; SYMBOLISM; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SIZE PERCEPTION; SYMBOLISM; TIME PERCEPTION; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33847637731     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.121.1.82     Document Type: Article

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