Rule learning by zebra finches in an artificial grammar learning task: Which rule?

Animal Cognition

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 165-175

  van Heijningen, Caroline A A ^a,b   Chen, Jiani ^a   van Laatum, Irene ^a   van der Hulst, Bonnie ^a   ten Cate, Carel ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Artificial grammar learning; Biolinguistics; Discrimination learning; Rule learning; Songbird; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERI; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FINCH; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FINCHES; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84874114951     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-012-0559-x     Document Type: Article

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