Corvid re-caching without 'theory of mind': A model

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  van der Vaart, Elske ^a   Verbrugge, Rineke ^a   Hemelrijk, Charlotte K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; CACHING; CORVID; DEFENSE MECHANISM; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL COGNITION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRESS; THEORY OF MIND; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COGNITION; COMPUTER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; LEARNING; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

APHELOCOMA; AVES; CORVIDA;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; LEARNING; MEMORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTIVATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 84857703352     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032904     Document Type: Article

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