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Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Beyond existence and aiming outside the laboratory: estimating frequency-dependent and pay-off-biased social learning strategies.

10 Nov 2008 The existence of social learning has been confirmed in diverse taxa, from apes to guppies. In order to advance our understanding of the consequences of social transmission and evolution of behaviour, however, we require statistical tools that can ... Read more...

Investigating children as cultural magnets: do young children transmit redundant information along diffusion chains?

10 Nov 2008 The primary goal of this study was to investigate cultural transmission in young children, with specific reference to the phenomenon of overimitation. Diffusion chains were used to compare the imitation of 2- and 3-year-olds on a task in which the ... Read more...

Review. Establishing an experimental science of culture: animal social diffusion experiments.

10 Nov 2008 A growing set of observational studies documenting putative cultural variations in wild animal populations has been complemented by experimental studies that can more rigorously distinguish between social and individual learning. However, these ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Learning'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Beyond existence and aiming outside the laboratory: estimating frequency-dependent and pay-off-biased social learning strategies. 10 Nov 2008
• Investigating children as cultural magnets: do young children transmit redundant information along diffusion chains? 10 Nov 2008
• Review. Establishing an experimental science of culture: animal social diffusion experiments. 10 Nov 2008
• Review. Studying cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory. 10 Nov 2008
• Introduction. Cultural transmission and the evolution of human behaviour. 10 Nov 2008
• The fitness and functionality of culturally evolved communication systems. 10 Nov 2008
• Review. Theoretical and empirical evidence for the impact of inductive biases on cultural evolution. 10 Nov 2008
• Cultural evolution: implications for understanding the human language faculty and its evolution. 10 Nov 2008
• Teaching lifesaving procedures: the impact of model fidelity on acquisition and transfer of cricothyrotomy skills to performance on cadavers. 30 Oct 2008
• On the front lines: lessons learned in implementing multidisciplinary peripheral venous access pain-management programs in pediatric hospitals. 30 Oct 2008
• CNS learns stable, accurate, and efficient movements using a simple algorithm. 27 Oct 2008
• Neural substrates for reversing stimulus-outcome and stimulus-response associations. 27 Oct 2008
• [Space for learning: in a figurative sense--and literally] 25 Oct 2008
• [Students as teachers] 25 Oct 2008
• [Lecturing--an enduring teaching method] 25 Oct 2008
• [Aarhus University--a step towards outcome-based education] 25 Oct 2008
• [Feedback in postgraduate medical training] 25 Oct 2008
• [Feedback in relation to training of practical clinical skills] 25 Oct 2008
• [Group supervision of junior doctors] 25 Oct 2008
• [Implementation of a national training assessment programme in anaesthesiology] 25 Oct 2008

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Technical information about 'Learning'

Definition: Relatively permanent change in behavior that is the result of past experience or practice. The concept includes the acquisition of knowledge.

Descriptor UI: D007858

Alternative terms: Learning; Phenomenography;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.463.425; F02.784.629.529;

Technical Notes: more psychol than educ: Manual 30.12