Abstract-Concept Learning and List-Memory Processing by Capuchin and Rhesus Monkeys

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 184-198

  Wright, Anthony A ^a   Rivera, Jacquelyne J ^a   Katz, Jeffrey S ^b   Bachevalier, Jocelyne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CEBIDAE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MACACA; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CEBUS; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

ANIMALIA; CEBIDAE; CEBUS; CEBUS APELLA; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 0141752909     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.29.3.184     Document Type: Article

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