Orientation perception in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)

Animal Cognition

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 535-545

  Wakita, Masumi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Category; Monkey; Orientation; Verbal coding

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MACACA; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FORM PERCEPTION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 46549088932     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-008-0146-3     Document Type: Article

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