The role of skin-related information in pigeons' categorization and recognition of humans in pictures

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 1941-1948

  Aust, Ulrike ^a   Huber, Ludwig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Categorization; Picture object recognition; Pigeons; Skin color; Skin texture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SKIN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

EID: 77955843193     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.07.012     Document Type: Article

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