Animal cognition: Deconstructing avian insight.
A new study of how experience contributes to apparently insightful problem-solving by tool-using crows has shown that operating an apparatus with the beak or a stick promotes novel use of stones on the same apparatus.
Shettleworth
Sara J
SJ
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. shettle@psych.utoronto.ca
D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds / Q000502:physiology*; D003071:Cognition