Arithmetic in newborn chicks

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1666, 2009, Pages 2451-2460

  Rugani, Rosa ^a   Fontanari, Laura ^a   Simoni, Eleonora ^b   Regolin, Lucia ^b   Vallortigara, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Addition; Arithmetic; Counting; Number cognition; Number sense; Subtraction

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HATCHING; NUMERICAL METHOD; POULTRY; PRECOCIALITY; REARING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CHICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MENTAL TASK; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 66749106395     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0044     Document Type: Article

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