Do pigeons perceive the motion aftereffect? A behavioral study

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 327-333

  Xiao, Qian ^a   Güntürkün, Onur ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bird; Movement aftereffect; Pretectum

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; VISUAL ILLUSION;

AFTERIMAGE; ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 38049084674     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.09.026     Document Type: Article

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