Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) show robust primacy and recency in memory for lists from small, but not large, image sets

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 183-190

  Basile, Benjamin M ^a   Hampton, Robert R ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Familiarity; Interference; Rehearsal; Serial probe recognition

Indexed keywords

FAMILIARITY; MEMORY; PRIMATE; RECOGNITION;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL TEST; NONHUMAN; RECOGNITION; RHESUS MONKEY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; SIZE PERCEPTION;

MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 77349098740     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.12.013     Document Type: Article

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