Tracking changing environments: Innovators are fast, but not flexible learners

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Griffin, Andrea S ^a   Guez, David ^a   Lermite, Françoise ^a   Patience, Madeleine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CREATIVITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MALE; NEW SOUTH WALES; PROBLEM SOLVING; STARLINGS;

EID: 84894097591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084907     Document Type: Article

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