Grey parrot number acquisition: The inference of cardinal value from ordinal position on the numeral list

Cognition

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 219-232

  Pepperberg, Irene M ^a,b   Carey, Susan ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal cognition; Nonhuman numerical competence; Parrot cognition; Parrot number acquisition; Successor function

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARABIC NUMERAL; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NONHUMAN; PARROT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSITTACUS ERITHACUS;

ANIMALS; COMPREHENSION; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PARROTS;

EID: 84865779206     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.07.003     Document Type: Article

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