Costs of memory: Ideas and predictions

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 41-50

  Dukas, Reuven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; MEMORY;

BODY MASS; COGNITION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; EVOLUTION; MEMORY; NEUROBIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033531428     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1998.0856     Document Type: Article

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