Task Constraints Mask Great Apes' Ability to Solve the Trap-Table Task

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 54-62

  Girndt, Antje ^a   Meier, T ^a   Call, J ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

causal knowledge; inhibition; primates; problem solving; tool use

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANTHROPOIDEA; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; GORILLA; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANIMALS; APTITUDE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; FEMALE; GORILLA GORILLA; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANIMALIA; GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; PAN; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES; SIMIIFORMES;

EID: 39049107794     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.34.1.54     Document Type: Article

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