How monkeys see the eyes: Cotton-top tamarins' reaction to changes in visual attention and action

Animal Cognition

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 131-139

  Santos, Laurie R ^a   Hauser, Marc D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Action expectation; Cotton top tamarin; Gaze following; Knowledge of agency

Indexed keywords

EID: 39049162307     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100710050033     Document Type: Article

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