Categorical learning between 'male' and 'female' photographic human faces in jungle crows (Corvus macrorhynchos)

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 109-118

  Bogale, Bezawork Afework ^a,b   Aoyama, Masato ^b   Sugita, Shoei ^a,b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Categorical learning; Human face; Jungle crow (Corvus macrorhynchos)

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; LEARNING; PASSERINE; PROBABILITY; SEX DETERMINATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATEGORICAL LEARNING; CROW; FACE; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; TRAINING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; COLOR; CROWS; CUES; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ANIMALIA; CORVIDAE; CORVUS MACRORHYNCHOS;

EID: 78650509928     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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