On the flexibility of lizards' cognition: a comment on Leal & Powell (2011)
Author(s) -
Marco Vasconcelos,
Tiago Monteiro,
Alex Kacelnik
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
biology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.596
H-Index - 110
eISSN - 1744-957X
pISSN - 1744-9561
DOI - 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0848
Subject(s) - biology , flexibility (engineering) , cognition , cognitive flexibility , zoology , evolutionary biology , cognitive science , neuroscience , psychology , statistics , mathematics
Leal & Powell [[1][1]] (L&P) report experiments on the tropical lizard Anolis evermanni which, in their view, ‘show that A. evermanni exhibits behavioural flexibility across multiple cognitive tasks, including solving a novel motor task using multiple strategies and reversal learning, plus rapid
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