Youngsters do not pay attention to conversational rules: Is this so for nonhuman primates?

Scientific Reports

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Lemasson, A ^a,b   Glas, L ^a   Barbu, S ^a   Lacroix, A ^c   Guilloux, M ^a   Remeuf, K ^a   Koda, H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ EUROPÉENNE DE BRETAGNE   (France)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGING; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84855948556     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00022     Document Type: Article

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