Crows make optimal choices based on relative probabilities

Amalia P M Bastos

doi:10.3758/s13420-023-00612-1

Crows make optimal choices based on relative probabilities

Amalia P M Bastos

School of Psychology and Neuroscience

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A recent study by Johnston, Brecht, and Nieder (2023, Current Biology, 33, 3238-3243) finds that carrion crows associate varying rates of reinforcement with novel arbitrary stimuli and make optimal decisions when they must later choose between stimulus pairs. These results demonstrate that crows are capable of not only storing information about reward probabilities in their memory but also making optimal choices based on this information even a month later.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	207-208
Number of pages	2
Journal	Learning and Behavior
Volume	52
Early online date	9 Nov 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-023-00612-1
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2024

Keywords

Crows
Choice Behavior
Animals
Probability
Reward
Reinforcement, Psychology

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