Primate errors in transitive 'inference': A two-tier learning model

Animal Cognition

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-15

  Bryson, Joanna J ^a   Leong, Jonathan C S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Choice or performance; Hippocampal learning; Modelling; Task learning; Transitive inference

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING;

CEBIDAE; PRIMATES; SAIMIRI; SAIMIRI SCIUREUS;

EID: 33845347386     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-006-0024-9     Document Type: Article

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