Can nonhuman primates use tokens to represent and sum quantities?

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 369-380

  Evans, Theodore A ^a   Beran, Michael J ^b   Addessi, Elsa ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Capuchin monkey; Chimpanzee; Quantity representation; Summation; Token

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CEBUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; PAN TROGLODYTES; REINFORCEMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CEBUS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; PAN TROGLODYTES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOKEN ECONOMY;

EID: 78649691102     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019855     Document Type: Article

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