Simple minds: A qualified defence of associative learning

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1603, 2012, Pages 2695-2703

  Heyes, Cecilia ^a  

^a ALL SOULS COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal cognition; Associative learning; Chimpanzee; Cooperation; Morgan's canon; Parsimony

Indexed keywords

BLINDNESS; BRAIN; COGNITION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHILOSOPHY; PREDICTION; PRIMATE;

EID: 84865431337     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0217     Document Type: Review

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