Optimal assessment of multiple cues

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1524, 2003, Pages 1637-1643

  Fawcett, Tim W ^a,b   Johnstone, Rufus A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Discrimination task; Mate choice; Multiple cues; Sequential sampling

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MATE CHOICE;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATING; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0042531681     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2328     Document Type: Article

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