Distinguishing social and asocial learning using diffusion dynamics

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 90-104

  Reader, Simon M ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DIFFUSION; EMPIRICISM; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; REVIEW; SOCIAL LEARNING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 2342642101     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/bf03196010     Document Type: Review

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