Observational learning in the large-billed crow (Corvus macrorhynchos): Effect of demonstrator-observer dominance relationship

Interaction Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 281-303

  Izawa, Ei Ichi ^a   Watanabe, Shigeru ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Affordance; Culture; Emulation; Imitation; Innovation; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053157157     PISSN: 15720373     EISSN: 15720381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/is.12.2.05iza     Document Type: Article

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