Memory for inter-reinforcement interval variability and patch departure decisions in the starling, Sturnus vulgaris

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1025-1045

  Brunner, Dani ^a   Kacelnik, Alex ^b   Gibbon, John ^c  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STURNUS VULGARIS;

DEPARTURE DECISION; STARLING;

EID: 0030131636     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0105     Document Type: Article

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