Pigeons and humans are more sensitive to nonaccidental than to metric changes in visual objects

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 199-209

  Lazareva, Olga F ^a   Wasserman, Edward A ^a   Biederman, Irving ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Humans; Pigeons; Shape perception; Stimulus similarity; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

BIRD; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION; SHAPE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PIGEON; RECOGNITION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STIMULUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION;

ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

COLUMBA; MACACA; PRIMATES;

EID: 38949215228     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2007.11.009     Document Type: Article

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