Free-ranging rhesus monkeys spontaneously individuate and enumerate small numbers of non-solid portions

Cognition

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 207-221

  Wood, Justin N ^a   Hauser, Marc D ^a,b   Glynn, David D ^a   Barner, David ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Non human primate; Number; substances

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL FUNCTION; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; RHESUS MONKEY; VISUAL SYSTEM; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FORM PERCEPTION; MACACA MULATTA; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIZE PERCEPTION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 36849025974     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.01.004     Document Type: Article

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