Integration of auditory and visual information in human face discrimination in pigeons. Behavioral and anatomical study

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 207, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 61-69

  Watanabe, Shigeru ^a   Masuda, Sayako ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Neuroanatomy; Pigeon; Sensory integration; Social cognition; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY EVALUATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TELENCEPHALON; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BASAL GANGLIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLUMBIDAE; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL TRACT-TRACERS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70649084031     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.09.041     Document Type: Article

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