Establishing functional classes in a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) with a two-item sequential-responding procedure

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 57-79

  Tomonaga, Masaki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Functional classes; Screen touch; Sequential responding; Stimulus control; Successive reversal training

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040736247     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.1999.72-57     Document Type: Article

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