Tracking a changing environment: Optimal sampling, adaptive memory and overnight effects

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 86-94

  Dunlap, Aimee S ^a   Stephens, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental change; Foraging; Memory; Sampling; Tracking

Indexed keywords

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MEMORY; OPTIMIZATION; PASSERINE; SAMPLING; TRACKING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXPERIENCE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MODEL; NONHUMAN; STIMULUS;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENT; LEARNING; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PASSERIFORMES; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CORVIDAE; CYANOCITTA;

EID: 84856405320     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2011.10.005     Document Type: Article

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