Implicit and explicit categorization: A tale of four species

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2355-2369

  Smith, J David ^a   Berg, Mark E ^b   Cook, Robert G ^c   Murphy, Matthew S ^c   Crossley, Matthew J ^d   Boomer, Joseph ^a   Spiering, Brian ^e   Beran, Michael J ^f   Church, Barbara A ^a   Ashby, F Gregory ^d   Grace, Randolph C ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Category learning; Cognitive neuroscience; Comparative cognition; Implicit explicit cognition; Primate cognition

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ATTENTION; CEBUS; CEBUS APELLA; COGNITION; COLUMBA LIVIA; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; INTEGRATION; LEARNING; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHESUS MONKEY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84868503928     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2012.09.003     Document Type: Review

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