Learning to Learn During Visual Discrimination in Group Housed Dwarf Goats (Capra hircus)
Using an automated learning device, we investigated “learning to learn” by dwarf goats (Capra hircus) in what was for them a familiar environment and normal social settings. Nine problems, each consisting of four discriminable black symbols, each with one S+ and three different S-, were presented on...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Comparative Psychology Vol. 121; no. 4; pp. 447 - 457 |
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American Psychological Association
November 2007
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