The ecological rationality of delay tolerance: Insights from capuchin monkeys

Cognition

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 142-147

  Addessi, Elsa ^a   Paglieri, Fabio ^a   Focaroli, Valentina ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Capuchins; Self control; Temporal discounting

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CALLITRICHINAE; CEBUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INTROSPECTION; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL TOLERANCE; PHYLOGENOMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONTROL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEBUS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; REWARD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79951953633     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.10.021     Document Type: Article

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