Conditioned suppression/avoidance as a procedure for testing hearing in birds: The domestic pigeon (Columba livia)

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 383-392

  Heffner, Henry E ^a   Koay, Gimseong ^a   Hill, Evan M ^a   Heffner, Rickye S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Audiogram; Avoidance conditioning; Conditioned suppression; Infrasound; Pigeon; Psychophysical procedures

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONED REFLEX; HEARING TEST; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; SOUND;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; HEARING TESTS; SOUND;

EID: 84878241101     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-012-0269-y     Document Type: Article

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