Evidence for two numerical systems that are similar in humans and guppies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Agrillo, Christian ^a   Piffer, Laura ^a   Bisazza, Angelo ^a   Butterworth, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FISH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICS; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STUDENT; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EVOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA;

ANIMALIA; OSTEICHTHYES; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; POECILIA; STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857066616     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031923     Document Type: Article

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