Discrimination of flicker frequency rates in the reptile tuatara (Sphenodon)

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 415-419

  Woo, Kevin L ^a,b   Hunt, Maree ^a   Harper, David ^a   Nelson, Nicola J ^a   Daugherty, Charles H ^a   Bell, Ben D ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flicker frequency; Operant learning; Reptile; Tuatara (Sphenodon); Visual sensitivity

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; LEARNING; LIGHT EFFECT; PERCEPTION; REPTILE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FLICKER FUSION; HUMANS; LEARNING; LIZARDS; MAMMALS; REPTILES; RETINA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STARTLE REACTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

AVES; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; SPHENODON; SPHENODON PUNCTATUS;

EID: 61449207034     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-008-0491-8     Document Type: Article

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