Memorization of serial items by Japanese monkeys, a chimpanzee, and humans

Japanese Psychological Research

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 236-252

  Ohshiba, Nobuaki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

List learning; Monotonicity; Serial search; Simultaneous chain; Species differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031291815     PISSN: 00215368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-5884.00057     Document Type: Article

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