Social and asocial cues about new food: Cue reliability influences intake in rats

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 82-89

  Dewar, Gwen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Santa Rosa Junior College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD SAFETY; NONHUMAN; RAT; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL LEARNING;

EID: 2342509609     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/bf03196009     Document Type: Article

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