Food and token quantity discrimination in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella)

Animal Cognition

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 275-282

  Addessi, Elsa ^a   Crescimbene, Lara ^a   Visalberghi, Elisabetta ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Analogue magnitude system; Choice; Exchange; Number; Numerousness

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CEBIDAE; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CEBUS; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; JUDGMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS;

CEBIDAE; CEBUS; CEBUS APELLA;

EID: 40949135197     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-007-0111-6     Document Type: Article

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