Representing tools: How two non-human primate species distinguish between the functionally relevant and irrelevant features of a tool

Animal Cognition

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 269-281

  Santos, Laurie R ^a   Miller, Cory T ^a   Hauser, Marc D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Expectancy violation method; Non human tool user; Rhesus; Tamarins; Tools

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANTHROPOIDEA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HABITUATION; IMITATION; LEARNING; MACACA; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); SAGUINUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; ANTHROPOIDEA; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES; SAGUINUS; SAGUINUS OEDIPUS; VITIS SP.;

EID: 1442280630     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-003-0171-1     Document Type: Article

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