Sequential responding to arabic numerals with wild cards by the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)

Animal Cognition

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-11

  Tomonaga, Masaki ^a   Matsuzawa, Tetsuro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes); Sequential responding; Serial position effect; Symbolic distance effect; Wild cards

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002345979     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100710050045     Document Type: Article

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