Old world monkeys compare to apes in the primate cognition test battery

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Schmitt, Vanessa ^a,b   Pankau, Birte ^a   Fischer, Julia ^a,b  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APE; ARTICLE; BABOON; BRAIN SIZE; CHIMPANZEE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FEMALE; INTELLIGENCE; MACACA; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE COGNITION TEST BATTERY; PSYCHODYNAMICS; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPECIES COMPARISON; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORANG UTAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

CERCOPITHECIDAE; HOMINIDAE; MACACA; MACACA FASCICULARIS; PAN; PAPIO ANUBIS; PRIMATES;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAPIO; PONGO; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84859239296     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032024     Document Type: Article

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