Pigeons (Columba livia) learn to link numerosities with symbols

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 83-91

  Xia, Li ^a   Emmerton, Jacky ^b   Siemann, Martina ^a   Delius, Juan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PIGEONS AND DOVES;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLUMBIDAE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 85047682692     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.115.1.83     Document Type: Article

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