Does the macaque monkey provide a good model for studying human executive control? a comparative behavioral study of task switching

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Caselli, Luana ^a,b   Chelazzi, Leonardo ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c National Institute of Neuroscience   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TASK SWITCHING; ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; MACACA; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

MACACA; PRIMATES;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; MACACA; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 79959621418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021489     Document Type: Article

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