Spontaneous discrimination of natural stimuli by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 392-400

  Brown, David A ^a,b   Boysen, Sarah T ^a,b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PAN TROGLODYTES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PAN TROGLODYTES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034566781     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.114.4.392     Document Type: Article

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