Great apes track hidden objects after changes in the objects' position and in subject's orientation

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 349-359

  Albiach Serrano, Anna ^a   Call, Josep ^a   Barth, Jochen ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Allocentric spatial coding; Object permanence; Rotations; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

DISPLACEMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MEMORY; PRIMATE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRANSLOCATION;

ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD; GORILLA; MALE; ORANG UTAN; ORIENTATION; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD; GORILLA GORILLA; MALE; ORIENTATION; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; PAN; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS;

EID: 77449134786     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: 10982345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20790     Document Type: Article

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