Pigeons can discriminate "good" and "bad" paintings by children

Animal Cognition

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 75-85

  Watanabe, Shigeru ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Category; Concept; Visual art; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; COLUMBA;

EID: 72449137145     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-009-0246-8     Document Type: Article

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