Do infant Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) categorize objects without specific training?

Primates

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-6

  Murai, Chizuko ^a   Tomonaga, Masaki ^a   Kamegai, Kimi ^a   Terazawa, Naoko ^a   Yamaguchi, Masami K ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Infant Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata); Paired preference method; Spontaneous categorization

Indexed keywords

LEARNING; PRIMATE;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA FUSCATA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPT FORMATION; JAPAN; LEARNING; MACACA; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; JAPAN; MACACA; MALE;

EID: 1442360916     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-003-0053-9     Document Type: Article

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