Overshadowing Between Landmarks on the Touchscreen and in ARENA With Pigeons

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 488-494

  Leising, Kenneth J ^a   Garlick, Dennis ^b   Blaisdell, Aaron P ^b  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cue competition; Generalization; Navigation; Overshadowing; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLUMBIDAE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

COLUMBA;

EID: 80054968946     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023914     Document Type: Article

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