Experience-dependent emergence of a grouping bias

Biology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Toro, Juan M ^a   Nespor, Marina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Experience; Iambic trochaic law; Perceptual bias; Rats

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BOOTSTRAPPING; COGNITION; LANGUAGE; PERCEPTION; RODENT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RAT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 84941585189     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2015.0374     Document Type: Article

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