Comparing children's homo sapiens and chimpanzees' Pan troglodytes quantity judgments of sequentially presented sets of items

Current Zoology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 419-428

  Beran, Michael J ^a   Johnson Pynn, Julie S ^b   Ready, Christopher ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BERRY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Chimpanzees; Numerical cognition; Pan troglodytes; Quantity judgments

Indexed keywords

HOMO SAPIENS; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 79958290324     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/57.4.419     Document Type: Article

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