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"Shape from shading" is the ability to integrate the pattern of light reflected by a surface and with light source information to derive the object's structure. This study explores this ability in five European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), a model passerine species previously used once in our lab (Khan, 2009). The focus of the current study was to follow the experiments from Cook, Commons-Miller, ... read moreKieres (2009) where this ability was studied in pigeons. This study used an operant chamber in a closed-economy feeding system which used perching as the response behavior. The study established that starlings are able to discriminate concavities from convexities and, using transfer tests to categorically similar stimuli, confirms that the starlings are responding to concavity and convexity.read less
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