Serial learning by Rhesus Monkeys: II. Learning four-item lists by trial and error

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 274-285

  Swartz, Karyl B ^a   Chen, Shaofu ^b   Terrace, H S ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; LEARNING; MACACA; MALE; MEMORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEMORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 0034218659     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.26.3.274     Document Type: Article

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