Multiple-pair training enhances transposition in pigeons

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 174-187

  Lazareva, Olga F ^a,c   Miner, Michelle ^a   Wasserman, Edward A ^a   Young, Michael E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCLING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 48249142325     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/LB.36.3.174     Document Type: Article

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