Executive decision-making in the domestic sheep

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Morton, A J ^a   Avanzo, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; LEARNING; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MODELS, ANIMAL; REVERSAL LEARNING; SHEEP, DOMESTIC;

ANIMALIA; CERCOPITHECIDAE; MACACA; OVIS ARIES; PRIMATES;

EID: 79551643723     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015752     Document Type: Article

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