Acquired equivalences between auditory stimuli in dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

Animal Cognition

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 79-83

  von Fersen, Lorenzo ^a   Delius, Juan D ^b  

^a Tiergarten Stadt Nürnberg   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acquired equivalence; Auditory discriminations; Bottlenose dolphins; Concept formation; Response re assignments

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040111168     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100710000063     Document Type: Article

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