Overcoming response bias using symbolic representations of number by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 229-235

  Boysen, Sarah T ^a   Mukobi, Kimberly L ^a   Berntson, Gary G ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; REWARD; SYMBOLISM;

ANIMALIA; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0033003548     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03199679     Document Type: Article

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