Animal logics: Decisions in the absence of human language

Animal Cognition

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 235-245

  Watanabe, Shigeru ^a   Huber, Ludwig ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; BRAIN; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LOGIC; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; REVIEW;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LOGIC; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 33749571161     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-006-0043-6     Document Type: Review

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