Transitive responding in hooded crows requires linearly ordered stimuli

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-19

  Lazareva, Olga F ^a,b,e   Smirnova, Anna A ^c   Bagozkaja, Maria S ^c   Zorina, Zoya A ^c   Rayevsky, Vladimir V ^d   Wasserman, Edward A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGHER NERVOUS ACTIVITY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d Institute of Higher Nervous Activity   (Russian Federation)

^e E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Cognition; Hooded crows; Transitive inference; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 4744376080     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.2004.82-1     Document Type: Article

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