Vicarious reinforcement in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAR, 2011, Pages

  Chang, Steve W C ^a,b   Winecoff, Amy A ^a   Platt, Michael L ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gaze; Rhesus macaques; Social interaction; Social reward; Vicarious reinforcement

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; LEARNING; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; REINFORCEMENT; VICARIANCE;

EID: 84856376878     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2011.00027     Document Type: Article

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