What do you mean with " direction" ? Local and global cues to biological motion perception in pigeons

Vision Research

Volumn 79, Issue , 2013, Pages 47-55

  Troje, Nikolaus F ^a   Aust, Ulrike ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biological motion; Local precedence; Pigeons; Structure from motion; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVOKED RESPONSE; MENTAL TASK; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84873544424     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2013.01.002     Document Type: Article

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