Pigeons Discriminate Continuous Versus Discontinuous Line Segments

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 273-286

  Kirkpatrick, Kimberly ^a   Wilkinson, Anna ^a   Johnston, Siobhan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

gestalt; good continuation; pigeons; visual perception

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GESTALT THERAPY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PIGEONS AND DOVES; PROBLEM SOLVING; VISION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COLUMBIDAE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GESTALT THEORY; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL CLOSURE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PROBLEM SOLVING; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

AVES; COLUMBA;

EID: 34548846905     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.33.3.273     Document Type: Article

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