Language-naive chimpanzees (pan troglodytes) judge relations between relations in a conceptual matching-to-sample task

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 31-43

  Thompson, Roger K R ^a,d   Oden, David L ^b   Boysen, Sarah T ^c  

^a MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b La Salle University ^*  (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; LANGUAGE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); LANGUAGE; PAN TROGLODYTES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030639211     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.23.1.31     Document Type: Article

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