Comparative and categorical spatial judgments in the monkey: "high" and "low"

Animal Cognition

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 101-108

  Fortes, Antonio F ^a   Merchant, Hugo ^a   Georgopoulos, Apostolos P ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; High low; Rhesus monkey; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MACACA MULATTA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MACACA; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FORM PERCEPTION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEMANTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 2942715021     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-003-0195-6     Document Type: Article

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