Effects of number of items on the baboon's discrimination of same from different visual displays

Animal Cognition

Volumn 4, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 163-170

  Wasserman, Edward A ^a,b   Young, Michael E ^a   Fagot, Joël ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Center for Research in Cognitive Neurosciences   (France)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Baboons; Conceptualization; Number of items; Same different discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 1442326434     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100710100095     Document Type: Article

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