Serial List Linking by Macaque Monkeys (Macaca mulatta): List Property Limitations

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 250-259

  Treichler, F Robert ^a   Raghanti, Mary Ann ^a   Van Tilburg, Debra N ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

inference; list combination; macaques; organized retention; serial list memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; LEARNING; MACACA; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; MACACA MULATTA; MEMORY; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 34548837797     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.121.3.250     Document Type: Article

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