Great apes' strategies to map spatial relations

Animal Cognition

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 511-523

  Hribar, Alenka ^a,b   Haun, Daniel ^a,c,d   Call, Josep ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analogy; Landmark; Relational similarity; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; MALE; ORANG UTAN; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; FEMALE; MALE; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPACE PERCEPTION;

HOMINIDAE; PAN; PONGO PYGMAEUS;

EID: 79959256643     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-011-0385-6     Document Type: Article

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