Pigeons identify individual humans but show no sign of recognizing them in photographs

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 82-89

  Dittrich, Lars ^a   Adam, Ruth ^a   Ünver, Emre ^a   Güntürkün, Onur ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Columba livia; Human category; Object recognition; Pictorial representation; Representational insight

Indexed keywords

BIRD; LEARNING; PHOTOGRAPH; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PIGEON; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTOGRAPHY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA;

EID: 72449190168     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.10.006     Document Type: Article

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