Orthographic processing in pigeons (Columba livia)
Orthographic processing in pigeons (Columba livia)
D. Scarf,Karoline Boy,3 Authors,M. Colombo
2016 · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1607870113
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 65 Citations
TLDR
It is shown that pigeons, organisms that separated from humans more than 300 million y ago, process words orthographically, and that visual systems organizationally distinct from the primate visual system can also be exapted or recycled to process the visual word form.