Linking of Serially Ordered Lists by Macaque Monkeys (Macaca mulatta): List Position Influences

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 211-221

  Treichler, F Robert ^a   Raghanti, Mary Ann ^a   Van Tilburg, Debra N ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MACACA; ORIENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; ORIENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0141864478     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.29.3.211     Document Type: Article

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