Color classification by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in a matching-to-sample task

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 148, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 157-165

  Matsuno, Toyomi ^a   Kawai, Nobuyuki ^a,b   Matsuzawa, Tetsuro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Color classification; Color name; Matching to sample task

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

EID: 0345734443     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(03)00185-2     Document Type: Article

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