Spontaneous vocal differentiation of coo-calls for tools and food in Japanese monkeys

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 383-389

  Hihara, Sayaka ^a   Yamada, Hiroko ^b   Iriki, Atsushi ^a   Okanoya, Kazuo ^b,c  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coo calls; Language; Macaque monkey; Naming; Tool use; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD; LANGUAGE; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAINING; VOCALIZATION; VOICE;

EID: 0345700336     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(03)00011-7     Document Type: Article

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