How much does number matter to a monkey (Macaca mulatta)?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 32-41

  Cantlon, Jessica F ^a   Brannon, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Matching; Monkeys; Nonhuman primates; Numerical cognition; Numerosity; Weber's law

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; LEARNING; MACACA; MATHEMATICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING; SIZE PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

EID: 33846358434     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.33.1.32     Document Type: Article

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