Spatial reorientation: The effects of space size on the encoding of landmark and geometry information

Animal Cognition

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 159-168

  Chiandetti, Cinzia ^a   Regolin, Lucia ^b   Sovrano, Valeria Anna ^b   Vallortigara, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Domestic chicks; Geometric module; Human infants; Modularity; Spatial reorientation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVALUATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SPACE PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33947522875     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-006-0054-3     Document Type: Article

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