#plosbiology
1
1
1
1
1
1
From plos.org
Immigrant birds learn from socially observed differences in payoffs when their environment changes
1 1
Theory predicts that strategic flexibility in using social information can help individuals make adaptive decisions. A large-scale cultural diffusion experiment reveals that great tits (Parus major) use a payoff-biased social learning strategy when immigrating into an environment with different...
#greattits #plosbiology #sociallearning #socialinformation
22h ago
1
From plos.org
1 1
Learning and decision-making ability undergo substantial changes throughout development, with adolescents showing elevated levels of choosing suboptimal options (’decision noise’). This study shows that the development of specific and more sophisticated choice behavior in adulthood is linked to...
23h ago