Evidence for a non-linguistic distinction between singular and plural sets in rhesus monkeys

Cognition

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 603-622

  Barner, David ^a   Wood, Justin ^b   Hauser, Marc ^b,c   Carey, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution of language; Language; Number; Parallel individuation; Sets; Singular plural

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHESUS MONKEY;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 41349108288     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.11.010     Document Type: Article

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