Large number discrimination by mosquitofish

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Agrillo, Christian ^a   Piffer, Laura ^a   Bisazza, Angelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FISH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICS; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REINFORCEMENT; SPACE; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONCEPT FORMATION; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AVES; GAMBUSIA AFFINIS; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; LEARNING; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOFTWARE;

EID: 78650987978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015232     Document Type: Article

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