Categorisation of three-dimensional stimuli by humans and baboons: Search for prototype effects

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 299-306

  Dépy, Delphine ^a   Fagot, Joël ^a   Vauclair, Jacques ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Categorisation; Cognition; Matching to sample; Primate; Prototype

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BABOON; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS; TRAINING;

EID: 0342813143     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(96)00757-7     Document Type: Article

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