Predictably harsh environment is associated with reduced cognitive flexibility in wild food-caching mountain chickadees
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DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.10.004
Abstract: Cognition is one of the mechanisms underlying behavioural flexibility, but flexibility of cognition itself may vary as a result of trade-offs between the ability to learn new information and the ability to retain old memories.… read more here.
Keywords: flexibility wild; flexibility; cognitive flexibility; elevation chickadees ... See more keywords