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...

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Main Authors: Julie Morand-Ferron, Steven Hamblin, Ella F Cole, Lucy M Aplin, John L Quinn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133821

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