Generalized relational matching by Guinea baboons (Papio papio) in two-by-two-item analogy problems

Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1304-1309

  Fagot, Joël ^a   Thompson, Roger K R ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cognition; cognitive processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053525494     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611422916     Document Type: Article

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