Rhesus monkeys employ a procedural strategy to reduce working memory load in a self-ordered spatial search task

Brain Research

Volumn 1413, Issue , 2011, Pages 43-50

  Taffe, Michael A ^a   Taffe, William J ^b  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CANTAB; Foraging; Spatial working memory; Traveling salesman

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

EID: 80052514779     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2011.07.048     Document Type: Article

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