Monkeys match and tally quantities across senses

Cognition

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 617-625

  Jordan, Kerry E ^a   MacLean, Evan L ^b   Brannon, Elizabeth M ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

comparative cognition; multisensory processes; non human primate; number

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DIVORCE; FEMALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SOUND; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; MATHEMATICS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 51449089926     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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