An efficient computerized testing method for the capuchin monkey (Cebus apella): Adaptation of the LRC-CTS to a socially housed nonhuman primate species

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 590-596

  Evans, Theodore A ^a   Beran, Michael J ^a   Chan, Betty ^a   Klein, Emily D ^a   Menzel, Charles R ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CEBIDAE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONDITIONED REFLEX; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTATION; LEARNING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CEBUS; COMPUTERS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 48149105700     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BRM.40.2.590     Document Type: Article

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