Cognitive Preconditions for Responses to Fairness: An Object Retrieval Test of Inhibitory Control in Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella)

Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 12-20

  Lakshminarayanan, Venkat R ^a   Santos, Laurie R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capuchin monkeys; fairness; prefrontal cortex; Ultimatum Game

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL TASK; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REWARD; SPECIES COMPARISON; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 77749321360     PISSN: 1937321X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015457     Document Type: Article

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