How to Detect a Cuckoo Egg: A Signal‐Detection Theory Model for Recognition and Learning

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• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  American Naturalist

• Publication date

  1999-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1086/303198PMID 29585642
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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