Auditory Same/Different Concept Learning and Generalization in Black-Capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapillus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Hoeschele, Marisa ^a   Cook, Robert G ^b   Guillette, Lauren M ^a   Hahn, Allison H ^a   Sturdy, Christopher B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; POECILE ATRICAPILLUS; REWARD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SONGBIRD;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COGNITION; LEARNING; PASSERIFORMES; SONGBIRDS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84867550586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047691     Document Type: Article

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