Numerical Abstraction in Young Domestic Chicks (Gallus gallus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Rugani, Rosa ^a   Vallortigara, Giorgio ^b   Regolin, Lucia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FOOD; GALLUS GALLUS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUMERICAL ABSTRACTION; REARING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ECOSYSTEM;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 84878943086     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065262     Document Type: Article

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