Internal sense of direction and landmark use in pigeons (Columba livia)
| Autor: | Jennifer E. Sutton, Sara J. Shettleworth |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Visual search
Communication Landmark business.industry Transfer Psychology Sense of direction Conflict Psychological Discrimination Learning Homing Behavior Orientation Space Perception Visual Perception Mental representation Animals Psychology (miscellaneous) Cues Columbidae Psychology business Sensory cue Intuition Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Comparative Psychology. 119:273-284 |
| ISSN: | 1939-2087 0735-7036 |
| Popis: | The relative importance of an internal sense of direction based on inertial cues and landmark piloting for small-scale navigation by White King pigeons (Columba livia) was investigated in an arena search task. Two groups of pigeons differed in whether they had access to visual cues outside the arena. In Experiment 1, pigeons were given experience with 2 different entrances and all pigeons transferred accurate searching to novel entrances. Explicit disorientation before entering did not affect accuracy. In Experiments 2-4, landmarks and inertial cues were put in conflict or tested 1 at a time. Pigeons tended to follow the landmarks in a conflict situation but could use an internal sense of direction to search when landmarks were unavailable. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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