Visuospatial selective attention in chickens

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 19, 2014, Pages

  Sridharan, Devarajan ^a   Ramamurthy, Deepa L ^a,b   Schwarz, Jason S ^a   Knudsen, Eric I ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian vision; Competitive selection; Executive functions; Top down control; Voluntary attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AVERSION; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HEAD POSITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPATIAL CUEING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AVIAN VISION; COMPETITIVE SELECTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; VOLUNTARY ATTENTION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHICKENS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PRIMATES; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84900468967     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1316824111     Document Type: Article

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