Peck tracking: A method for localizing critical features within complex pictures for pigeons

Animal Cognition

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 133-143

  Dittrich, Lars ^a   Rose, Jonas ^a   Buschmann, Jens Uwe Frank ^b   Bourdonnais, Morgane ^c   Güntürkün, Onur ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b FBI Science GmbH   (Germany)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Feature; Response location; Touch screen; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA;

EID: 72449195223     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-009-0252-x     Document Type: Article

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