Cognitive representation in transitive inference: A comparison of four corvid species

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 283-292

  Bond, Alan B ^a   Wei, Cynthia A ^a   Kamil, Alan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Evolution; Hippocampus; Memory

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; MEMORY; NATURAL SELECTION; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APHELOCOMA CALIFORNICA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BIRD; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOPICA CYANUS; DECISION MAKING; EVOLUTION; FOOD; GYMNORHINUS CYANOCEPHALUS; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; NUCIFRAGA COLUMBIANA; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPECIES; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BIRDS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

APHELOCOMA; APHELOCOMA CALIFORNICA; AVES; CORVIDA; CORVIDAE; CYANOPICA CYANUS; GYMNORHINUS; GYMNORHINUS CYANOCEPHALUS; NUCIFRAGA; NUCIFRAGA COLUMBIANA;

EID: 78149284634     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.08.003     Document Type: Article

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