Compressed scaling of abstract numerosity representations in adult humans and monkeys

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 333-346

  Merten, Katharina ^a   Nieder, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NONHUMAN; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SPECIES COMPARISON; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; COGNITION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59949089538     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.21032     Document Type: Article

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