Integrating niche-related and general process approaches in the study of learning

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 54, Issue 1-3, 2001, Pages 79-94

  Timberlake, William ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animals; Evolutions; Learning

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; LEARNING; NICHE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIRD; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFLICT; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PREDICTION; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD;

EID: 0035799539     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(01)00151-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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