Mechanisms of object recognition: what we have learned from pigeons

Behavioral studies of object recognition in pigeons have been conducted for 50 years, yielding a large body of data. Recent work has been directed toward synthesizing this evidence and understanding the visual, associative, and cognitive mechanisms that are involved. The outcome is that pigeons are...

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Main Authors: Fabian A Soto, Ed eWasserman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Neural Circuits
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncir.2014.00122/full