Pigeons' (Columba livia) hierarchical organization of local and global cues in touch screen tasks

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 128-139

  Legge, Eric L G ^a   Spetch, Marcia L ^a   Batty, Emily R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Global cues; Hierarchical encoding; Local cues; Pigeons; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GAMEBIRD; LEARNING;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COLUMBIDAE; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TOUCH;

COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA;

EID: 58249098392     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.10.011     Document Type: Article

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