Rhesus monkeys fail to use gaze direction as an experimenter-given cue in an object-choice task

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 47-55

  Anderson, James R ^a,b   Montant, Marie ^b   Schmitt, Didier ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Face; Gaze; Learning; Perspective taking; Rhesus monkey

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; RHESUS MONKEY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0029980849     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0376-6357(95)00074-7     Document Type: Article

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