Navigating two-dimensional mazes: Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and capuchins (Cebus apella sp.) profit from experience differently

Animal Cognition

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 491-504

  Fragaszy, Dorothy M ^a   Kennedy, Erica ^a,b   Murnane, Aeneas ^c   Menzel, Charles ^d   Brewer, Gene ^a   Johnson Pynn, Julie ^e   Hopkins, William ^c,f  

^a University of Georgia   (United States)

^b FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BERRY COLLEGE   (United States)

^f AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Learning; Memory; Planning; Spatial problem solving; Species differences; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CEBIDAE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; ORIENTATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CEBUS; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CEBIDAE; CEBUS; CEBUS APELLA; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES;

EID: 67349134192     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-008-0210-z     Document Type: Article

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