Memory for multiple cache locations and prey quantities in a food-hoarding songbird

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue DEC, 2012, Pages

  Armstrong, Nicola ^a   Garland, Alexis ^a   Burns, K C ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cache; Field experiment; Memory; New Zealand robin; Number

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874563594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00584     Document Type: Article

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