Sequential list-learning by an adolescent lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) using an infrared touchframe apparatus

Interaction Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 115-129

  Ross, S R ^a  

^a Lincoln Park Zoo   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Gorilla; List learning; Sequential learning; Serial learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349332329     PISSN: 15720373     EISSN: 15720381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/is.10.2.02ros     Document Type: Article

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