Matching-to-sample as a model of symbolic behavior for bio-behavioral investigations

Reviews in the Neurosciences

Volumn 19, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 149-156

  De Faria Galvão, Olavo ^a   Soares Filho, Paulo Sérgio Dillon ^a   Da Silva Barros, Romariz ^a   Alves De Souza, Carlos Barbosa ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Abstract stimulus relation ships; Animal model; Cebus apella; Cognition; Matching to sample; New world primates

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; MATCHING TO SAMPLE PROCEDURE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEBUS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EVOLUTION; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 48849092343     PISSN: 03341763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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