Training requirements and retention characteristics of serial list organization by macaque monkeys

Animal Cognition

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 235-244

  Treichler, F Robert ^a   van Tilburg, Debra ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

List organization; Macaca mulatta; Multiple problem learning; Retention; Transitive inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141659298     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100710050044     Document Type: Article

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