What is mirror self-recognition in nonhuman primates, and what is it not?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 818, Issue , 1997, Pages 65-71

  Swartz, Karyl B ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; RECOGNITION; SELF CONCEPT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AWARENESS; EGO; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EGO; PRIMATES;

EID: 0031577103     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48246.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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