Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) enumerate large and small sequentially presented sets of items using analog numerical representations

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 42-54

  Beran, Michael J ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Enumeration; Macaca mulatta; Monkeys; Numerical cognition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; LEARNING; MACACA; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MOTIVATION; ORIENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONCEPT FORMATION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MOTIVATION; ORIENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SERIAL LEARNING;

MACACA; MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 33846342076     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.33.1.42     Document Type: Article

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