Macaque monkeys categorize images by their ordinal number

Nature

Volumn 404, Issue 6773, 2000, Pages 77-80

  Orlov, Tanya ^a   Yakovlev, Volodya ^a   Hochstein, Shaul ^a   Zohary, Ehud ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034594896     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35003571     Document Type: Article

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