Comparing performance of humans and pigeons in rule-based visual categorization tasks

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 44-58

  Berg, Mark E ^a   Ward, Matthew D ^b   Dai, Zhijie ^b,c   Arantes, Joana ^b,d   Grace, Randolph C ^b,d  

^a RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c DONGBEI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Categorization; Gabor stimuli; Humans; Pigeons; Rule based; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891164054     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2013.11.001     Document Type: Article

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