Learning, representation and retrieval of rule-related knowledge in the song system of birds

Learning: Rule Extraction and Representation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 89-116

  Hultsch, Henrike ^a   Mundry, Roger ^a   Todt, Dietmar ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1515/9783110803488.89     Document Type: Chapter

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