Rule learning by cotton-top tamarins

Cognition

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2002, Pages

  Hauser, Marc D ^a   Weiss, Daniel ^b   Marcus, Gary ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Algebraic rules; Comparative method; Language acquisition; Language evolution; Monkeys

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ALGEBRAIC RULES;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MENTAL CAPACITY; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; VOWEL;

ANIMALS; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; SAGUINUS;

EID: 0036836775     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(02)00139-7     Document Type: Article

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