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Direct linkVallortigara, Giorgio; Feruglio, Marco; Sovrano, Valeria Anna – Developmental Science, 2005
It has been found that disoriented children could use geometric information in combination with landmark information to reorient themselves in large but not in small experimental spaces. We tested domestic chicks in the same task and found that they were able to conjoin geometric and nongeometric (landmark) information to reorient themselves in…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Children, Cognitive Science, Animals
