The glass is half-full: Overestimating the quality of a novel environment is advantageous

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Berger Tal, Oded ^a   Avgar, Tal ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FORAGING; LEARNING; OPTIMAL FORAGING; SIMULATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MEMORY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84859245740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034578     Document Type: Article

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