Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) spontaneously compute addition operations over large numbers

Cognition

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 315-325

  Flombaum, Jonathan I ^a   Junge, Justin A ^a   Hauser, Marc D ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compute addition operations; Language independent mechanisms; Rhesus monkey

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; MACACA MULATTA; MATHEMATICS;

EID: 26844561387     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.09.004     Document Type: Article

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