The role of reference points in ordinal numerical comparisons by rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatto)

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 120-134

  Brannon, Elizabeth M ^a   Cantlon, Jessica F ^a   Terrace, Herbert S ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal cognition; Numerical representations; Ordinal numerical knowledge; Visual arrays; Weber's law

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LEARNING; MACACA; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 33744747245     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.32.2.120     Document Type: Article

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