Visually guided capture of a moving stimulus by the pigeon (Columba livia)

Animal Cognition

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 127-144

  Wilkinson, Anna ^a   Kirkpatrick, Kimberly ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Motion perception; Pigeon; Visual cognition; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; REACTION TIME;

ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PROBABILITY LEARNING; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

AVES; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA;

EID: 58549096891     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-008-0177-9     Document Type: Article

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