Inferences About the Location of Food in Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella) in Two Sensory Modalities

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 156-166

  Sabbatini, Gloria ^a   Visalberghi, Elisabetta ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

auditory information; capuchin monkeys; inferential reasoning; process of elimination; visual information

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CEBIDAE; FEMALE; HEARING; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; VISION;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CEBUS; CUES; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 44449174157     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.122.2.156     Document Type: Article

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