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Transfer of physical understanding in a non-tool-using parrot.

Anim Cogn · 2016 · PMC5054051 · PMID 27639565

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failed to reach statistical significanceP = 0.06so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)
Although the cumulative probability of success in Task 1 failed to reach statistical significance ( χ 2 = 25.86, DF = 16, P = 0.06), suggesting that the initial learning criteria were not rigorous enough, subjects’ performances differed significantly from chance in Task 2 ( χ 2 = 26.67, DF = 12, P = 0.009) and in Task 1b ( χ 2 = 30.03, DF = 8, P = 0.0002) when they were retested on a further 10 trials of their initial learning task.

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