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Re-orienting in space: do animals use global or local geometry strategies?

Here we compare whether birds encode surface geometry using principal axes, medial axes or local geometry. Birds were trained to locate hidden food in two geometrically identical corners of a rectangular arena and subsequently tested in an L-shaped arena. The chicks showed a primary local geometry s...

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Autores principales: Kelly, Debbie M., Chiandetti, Cinzia, Vallortigara, Giorgio
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3097861/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21159689
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2010.1024