ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2020
The impact of learning opportunities on the development of learning and decision-making: an experiment with passerine birds.
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- Extended parenting and the evolution of cognition.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Review
- The impact of learning opportunities on the development of learning and decision-making: an experiment with passerine birds.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
Developmental context has been shown to influence learning abilities later in life, namely through experiments with nutritional and/or environmental constraints (i.e. lack of enrichment). However, little is known about the extent to which opportunities for learning affect the development of animal cognition, even though such opportunities are known to influence human cognitive development. We exposed young zebra finches (
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