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Introduction Innovation, solving a novel problem, or using a novel behavior to solve a familiar problem, is widely studied in humans and animals (Kummer and Goodall, 1985; Reader and Laland, 2003). Innovation has been strongly linked to brain size across bird, primate, and carnivore species (Reader and Laland, 2002; Lefebvre et al., 2004; Benson-Amram et al., 2016).
Associative learning is essential for resource acquisition, predator avoidance and reproduction in a wide diversity of species, and is therefore a key target for evolutionary and comparative cognition research. Automated operant devices can greatly enhance the study of associative learning and yet their use has been mainly restricted to laboratory conditions.
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