Pigeons perceive a reversed Zöllner illusion

Cognition

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 137-141

  Watanabe, Sota ^a   Nakamura, Noriyuki ^a   Fujita, Kazuo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Animal perception; Geometric illusion; Pigeons; Z llner illusion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIRECTIONAL VISION; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; ILLUSION; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SENSORY STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; MALE; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79951945390     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.10.020     Document Type: Article

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