Response latency in Canis familiaris: Mental ability or mental strategy?

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1066-1075

  Nippak, Pria M D ^a   Campbell, Zachariah ^f   Head, Elizabeth ^d   Murphey, Heather ^c   Chan, Alan D F ^b   Muggenburg, Bruce ^c   Ikeda Douglas, Candace J ^e   Cotman, Carl W ^d   Milgram, Norton W ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c LOVELACE RESPIRATORY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; COGNITION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; ERROR; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; NONHUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL BALANCE; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; COGNITION; DOGS; FEMALE; MALE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0141988738     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.117.5.1066     Document Type: Article

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