Adaptive forgetting in iberian green frog tadpoles (Pelophylax perezi): Learned irrelevance and latent inhibition may avoid predator misidentification

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 56-62

  Gonzalo, Adega ^a   López, Pilar ^a   Martín, José ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conditioning learning; Frogs; Latent inhibition; Learned irrelevance; Predator recognition; Tadpoles

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONING; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LARVA; LEARNING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; RANA CLAMITANS; RANDOMIZATION; RECOGNITION; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LARVA; LEARNING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RANA CLAMITANS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84881016929     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0029173     Document Type: Article

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