Pigeons (Columba livia) plan future moves on computerized maze tasks

Animal Cognition

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 505-516

  Miyata, Hiromitsu ^a   Fujita, Kazuo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

LCD monitor; Maze; Navigation; Pigeon; Planning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOTIVATION; ORIENTATION; PIGEONS AND DOVES; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLUMBIDAE; CONCEPT FORMATION; GOALS; INTENTION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA;

EID: 46549090128     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-008-0141-8     Document Type: Article

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