Large Number Discrimination in Newborn Fish

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Piffer, Laura ^a   Miletto Petrazzini, Maria Elena ^a   Agrillo, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; GUPPY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FISH; PHYSIOLOGY; POECILIA;

POECILIA RETICULATA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FISHES; POECILIA;

EID: 84876581715     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062466     Document Type: Article

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