Identity concept formation during visual multiple-choice matching in a harbor seal (Phoca vitulina)

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 428-436

  Mauck, Björn ^a   Dehnhardt, Guido ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IDENTITY; MALE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PHOCA; SEAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; DECISION MAKING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VISION;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONCEPT FORMATION; MALE; PHOCA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846707518     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193181     Document Type: Article

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