A Comparative Analysis of Serial Ordering in Ring-Tailed Lemurs (Lemur catta)

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 363-371

  Merritt, Dustin ^a,b   MacLean, Evan L ^a,b   Jaffe, Sarah ^a,b   Brannon, Elizabeth M ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Psychology and Neuroscience ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

distance effect; lemurs; ordinal memory; serial learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING; MEMORY; PROSIMIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEMUR; MEMORY; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 38149045025     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.121.4.363     Document Type: Article

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