The benefit of symbols: Monkeys show linear, human-like, accuracy when using symbols to represent scalar value

Animal Cognition

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 711-719

  Livingstone, Margaret S ^a   Srihasam, Krishna ^a   Morocz, Istvan A ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Monkeys; Numbers; Symbol learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REWARD; SYMBOLISM;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; REWARD; SYMBOLISM;

ANIMALIA; MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 77955822398     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-010-0321-1     Document Type: Article

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