Stimulus contingency and the malleability of species-typical auditory preferences in northern Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) hatchlings

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 460-472

  Harshaw, Christopher ^a   Tourgeman, Isaac P ^a   Lickliter, Robert ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory preferences; Contingency; Filial imprinting; Malleability; Northern bobwhite; Perceptual development; Schedules of reinforcement; Variability

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY PREFERENCE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHI SQUARE TEST; COLINUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; HATCHLING; LATENT PERIOD; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; QUAIL; REINFORCEMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION; AGE; ANIMAL; COTURNIX; DECISION MAKING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEARING; LEARNING; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

AVES; COLINUS VIRGINIANUS; COTURNIX JAPONICA;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLINUS; COTURNIX; IMPRINTING (PSYCHOLOGY); MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 49849103167     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20309     Document Type: Article

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