Taking the Operant Paradigm into the Field: Associative Learning in Wild Great Tits.
Associative learning is essential for resource acquisition, predator avoidance and reproduction in a wide diversity of species, and is therefore a key target for evolutionary and comparative cognition research. Automated operant devices can greatly enhance the study of associative learning and yet t...
Main Authors: | Julie Morand-Ferron, Steven Hamblin, Ella F Cole, Lucy M Aplin, John L Quinn |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2015-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133821 |
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