Influence of distal and proximal cues in encoding geometric information

Animal Cognition

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 351-358

  Vargas, Juan Pedro ^a   Quintero, Esperanza ^a   López, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cue competition; Fish; Geometry; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENT; GOLDFISH; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CUES; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENT; GOLDFISH; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; CARASSIUS AURATUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79955051488     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-010-0369-y     Document Type: Article

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