“Bear-ly” learning: Limits of abstraction in black bear cognition
We presented two American black bears (Ursus americanus) with a serial list learning memory task, and one of the bears with a matching-to-sample task. After extended training, both bears demonstrated some success with the memory task but failed to generalize the overarching rule of the task to novel...
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Animal Behavior and Cognition
2018-02-01
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Series: | Animal Behavior and Cognition |
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Online Access: | http://animalbehaviorandcognition.org/uploads/journals/18/AB_C_2018_Vol5(1)_Vonk_Jett.pdf |