Neonatal imitation in rhesus macaques

PLoS Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1501-1508

  Ferrari, Pier F ^a   Visalberghi, Elisabetta ^b   Paukner, Annika ^c   Fogassi, Leonardo ^a   Ruggiero, Angela ^c   Suomi, Stephen J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GESTURE; IMITATION; MACACA; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; RHESUS MONKEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOUTH; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; TONGUE;

MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOUTH; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS; TONGUE;

EID: 33748598959     PISSN: 15457885     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040302     Document Type: Article

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