Responses of Pigeon (Columba livia) Wulst Neurons During Acquisition and Reversal of a Visual Discrimination Task

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1139-1147

  Bingman, Verner P ^a   Gasser, Brad ^a   Colombo, Michael ^b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

avian cognition; avian vision; bird; electrophysiology; hyperpallium

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); PHOTIC STIMULATION; REVERSAL LEARNING; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 54049102567     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0012586     Document Type: Article

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