Face processing in cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus)

Animal Cognition

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 191-205

  Weiss, Daniel J ^a   Kralik, Jerald D ^a   Hauser, Marc D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cotton top tamarins; Discrimination learning; Face processing; Inversion effect; Nonhuman primates

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001549938     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100710000076     Document Type: Article

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