The "lunching" effect: Pigeons track motion towards food more than motion away from it

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 229-235

  Cabrera, Felipe ^a,b   Sanabria, Federico ^a   Shelley, David ^a   Killeen, Peter R ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Causal learning; Classical conditioning; Motion; Pigeons; Spatial contiguity; Touch screen

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCE; LEARNING; PASSERINE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE;

COLUMBA;

EID: 70350093750     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.06.010     Document Type: Article

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