Context-specific learning and its implications for social learning

Noa Truskanov, Rimon Shy and Arnon Lotem

Behavioral Ecology, 2018, vol. 29, issue 5, 1046-1055

Abstract: Experiments on captive house sparrows suggest that the need to generalize across different contexts may limit birds’ ability to learn socially from each other. The results of the study may also explain why social learning is often more effective when it is mediated through active search.

Keywords: active search; associative learning; cultural transmission; social foraging (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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