Can Free-Ranging Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta) Extract Artificially Created Rules Comprised of Natural Vocalizations?

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 161-167

  Hauser, Marc David ^a   Glynn, David ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

abstract rules; identity; language evolution; nonhuman primates; Pattern recognition; rhesus monkeys

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; HABITUATION; MACACA; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; VOCALIZATION; WILD ANIMAL;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MACACA MULATTA; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 65849521830     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015584     Document Type: Article

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