Do birds (pigeons and bantams) know how confident they are of their perceptual decisions?

Animal Cognition

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 83-93

  Nakamura, Noriyuki ^a,b   Watanabe, Sota ^b   Betsuyaku, Toru ^b   Fujita, Kazuo ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Columba livia; Confidence; Gallus gallus domesticus; Metacognition

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA; GALLUS GALLUS; MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 78650747511     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-010-0345-6     Document Type: Article

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