Brown Lemurs (Eulemur fulvus) Can Master the Qualitative Version of the Reverse-Reward Contingency

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Glady, Yannick ^a   Genty, Émilie ^b   Roeder, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UdS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EULEMUR FULVUS; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HOUSING; LEMURIDAE; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE REWARD TASK; SELF CONTROL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; LEMURIDAE; MALE; REWARD;

CEBUS; EULEMUR FULVUS; LEMURIDAE;

EID: 84868273904     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048378     Document Type: Article

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