The use of perceptual features in categorization by orangutans (Pongo abelli)

Animal Cognition

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 569-585

  Marsh, Heidi L ^a   MacDonald, Suzanne E ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Categorization; Concepts; Perceptual features

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANTHROPOIDEA; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CLASSIFICATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PONGO PYGMAEUS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

ANIMALIA; PONGO; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 51549101234     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-008-0148-1     Document Type: Article

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