Monkeys and apes: Are their cognitive skills really so different?

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 188-197

  Amici, Federica ^a,b,c,d   Aureli, Filippo ^a   Call, Josep ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Comparative cognition; Fission fusion dynamics; Memory; Support; Transposition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APE; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GORILLA; MACACA; MALE; MEMORY; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; REWARD; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COGNITION; FEMALE; HOMINIDAE; MACACA; MALE; MEMORY; PHYLOGENY; PLATYRRHINI; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 77956632688     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21305     Document Type: Article

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