ReviewFrontiers in psychology2022
Seeing the Forest for the Trees, and the Ground Below My Beak: Global and Local Processing in the Pigeon's Visual System.
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- c‑Fos Expression Reveals Activation of the Thalamofugal System in the Categorization Learning Model in Chicks.Bulletin of experimental biology and medicine · 2026Article
- Focused and distributed: Diverse attentional profiles in pigeon category learning.Learning & behavior · 2026Article
- Effects of eye cap occlusion on visual distance and fixating duration of pecking in pigeons.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
- Visual numerical cognition in pigeons: conformity to the Weber-Fechner law.Animal cognition · 2025Article
- Landscape heterogeneity and novelty drive avian oscillatory flight behaviour during forebrain Wulst-dependent visual map learning.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Resolving the associative learning paradox by category learning in pigeons.Current biology : CB · 2023Article
- Visual categories and concepts in the avian brain.Animal cognition · 2023Review
- Spatial cognition and the avian hippocampus: Research in domestic chicks.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
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Abstract
Non-human animals tend to solve behavioral tasks using local information. Pigeons are particularly biased toward using the local features of stimuli to guide behavior in small-scale environments. When behavioral tasks are performed in large-scale environments, pigeons are much better global processors of information. The local and global strategies are mediated by two different fovea in the pigeon retina that are associated with the tectofugal and thalamofugal pathways. We discuss the neural mechanisms of pigeons' bias for local information within the tectofugal pathway, which terminates at an intermediate stage of extracting shape complexity. We also review the evidence suggesting that the thalamofugal pathway participates in global processing in pigeons and is primarily engaged in constructing a spatial representation of the environment in conjunction with the hippocampus.
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