Same/different concept learning by capuchin monkeys in matching-to-sample tasks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Truppa, Valentina ^a,b   Mortari, Eva ^a,c   Garofoli, Duilio ^a,c   Privitera, Sara ^a,c   Visalberghi, Elisabetta ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT CONCEPT LEARNING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEBUS; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MONKEY; FEMALE; LEARNING TEST; MALE; MATCHING TO SAMPLE TASK; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

CEBUS; CEBUS APELLA; PLATYRRHINI;

ANIMALS; CEBUS; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 80051694810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023809     Document Type: Article

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