Pigeons learn to answer the question "where did you just peck?" and can report peck location when unexpectedly asked

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 184-189

  Singer, Rebecca A ^a   Zentall, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PROPRIOCEPTION; RECALL;

EID: 34548607847     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193054     Document Type: Article

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