Spontaneous number representation in mosquitofish

Cognition

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 343-348

  Dadda, Marco ^a   Piffer, Laura ^a   Agrillo, Christian ^a   Bisazza, Angelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Comparative cognition; Item by item presentation; Mosquitofish; Numerical competence

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; FISH; INFORMATION; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 67649185203     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.05.009     Document Type: Article

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