Mental rotation of perspective stimuli in a California sea lion (Zalophus californianus)

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 102-112

  Stich, Kai Petra ^a   Dehnhardt, Guido ^b   Mauck, Björn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

California sea lion; Cognitive ecology; Comparative cognition; Mammal; Mental representation; Mental rotation; Visual information processing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEVICE; DRAWING; ERROR; EXPERIMENT; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; IMAGING; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RECORDING; ROTATION; SAMPLE; SEAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISUAL STIMULATION; ZALOPHUS CALIFORNIANUS;

ANIMALS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; SEA LIONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; OTARIIDAE; PANTHERA LEO; ZALOPHUS CALIFORNIANUS;

EID: 0037236999     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000069355     Document Type: Article

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