Personality affects learning performance in difficult tasks in a sex-dependent way

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 723-730

  Titulaer, Mieke ^a,b   van Oers, Kees ^a   Naguib, Marc ^a,b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behavioural flexibility; Dimensional shift learning; Exploratory behaviour; Great tit; Learning strategy; Parus major; Personality; Sex difference

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; FITNESS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; PARADIGM SHIFT; PASSERINE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 84857059620     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.12.020     Document Type: Article

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