Speed-accuracy tradeoffs in animal decision making.

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Published in Trends Ecol Evol on May 04, 2009

Authors

Lars Chittka1, Peter Skorupski, Nigel E Raine

Author Affiliations

1: Research Centre for Psychology, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK. l.chittka@qmul.ac.uk

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